Drinking up the Sea contains six novels subtitled ‘A Hurley Hexalogy.’ Included are ‘The Last Existentialist, ‘ in which a ninety-year-old philosopher is on his way to accept an award; ‘Auteur, ‘ the story of boy meets girl as interpreted by an art cinema director; ‘Villas and Horizons, ‘ where an obscure copywriter compares his visions with those of Nietzsche and Tiberius; ‘Under the Greywacke Arch, ‘ wherein the search for the meaning of aesthetics is interrupted by visits from tiny characters out of our cultural past; ‘Smudge, ‘ showing how distinct pairs of philosophical concepts can be merged; and ‘Walking in Beauty, ‘ a guide of the bleak aesthetics of one of the nation’s oldest cities.
Despre autor
J. Hayes Hurley is a novelist and a philosopher. He currently has forty-eight published novels including Those Brownsville Blues, The Adjunct, First Trilogy, Second Trilogy, and Motion and Rest. As well, he holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Yale. Hurley contends, from an existentialist standpoint, that philosophy finds its best expression when contained in literature. His book covers display the works of well known painters. Altogether then, philosophy is contained in literature and literature is wrapped in art.