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Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments A Note on Translations Prologue One: When Life Was a French Dream Two: Outpouring of the Dream into Real Life Three: The Dream Becoming Flesh Four: Rolling in the Deep Five: Saint Louis de Gonzague: Foreshadowing Six: San Francisco: New World, New Life Seven: O Beautiful! Eight: From Illusion to the Truth Nine: A Coda: The Idiom of the Human Heart Bibliography Index About the Author

About the Author :
Matthew J. Motyka, S.J. is Associate Professor of Romance Languages in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at the University of San Francisco where he directs the French and Italian programs. He holds a doctorate in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of California, Berkeley. He is a Jesuit priest, member of the California Province.

Review :
Matthew Motyka’s fascinating reflections on the transformative nature of living life multilingually and multiculturally are as engaging as they are edifying. Tracing his lifelong journey of “continual beginnings” and encountering otherness (from Polish to French, English, Spanish, and Italian), his story is one of courtship—with languages, ideas, and ways of being that ultimately deepen Motyka’s capacity for spirituality. A literary and personal peregrination that will reward all readers curious about language, culture, and faith. This book is a unique, rich blend of deep scholarship and generously shared personal narrative. In it, Matthew Motyka compellingly depicts his complex, ever-evolving, international, multicultural, multilingual life and identity. The three greatest “calls” of his life have been that of the French language, literature, and culture; that of the life of the intellect, and that of Jesuit spirituality. The book is suffused with the author’s deep knowledge of, and search for transcendence through, languages, cultures, literature, and religion. It is written engagingly and accessibly, and will appeal both to fellow scholars and to the general reader. Matthew Motyka's lovely narrative embodies and brings to life the adage that 'the person who speaks two languages is two persons." Assuming there is a real person behind every language one speaks, Matthew gifts us with a wisdom, a clarity, a delicacy, and a humanity which, in their blessed aggregate, both ennoble and inspire. Part autobiography, part spiritual journal, and part prophecy, he has provided a refreshing oasis for every cultural pilgrim. The journey, his journey, is well worth it.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780761868477
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Confessions of a Multiculturalist
  • ISBN-10: 076186847X
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 130
  • Width: 152 mm


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