{"id":4365,"date":"2019-11-15T13:47:53","date_gmt":"2019-11-15T13:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canserrat.org\/?p=4365"},"modified":"2020-02-14T15:59:11","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T15:59:11","slug":"geoffrey-alexander-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/geoffrey-alexander-stone","title":{"rendered":"Geoffrey Alexander Stone"},"content":{"rendered":"<span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;Imaginative writing takes us on an adventure across geography, time, race and creed. In transporting us to these places, it has the power to both touch us deeply and make us feel less alone. This power, when well harnessed, inspires us see better and grasp the world through other\u2019s eyes. In our tribal political moment, we\u2019re losing this ability and worse, we\u2019ve forgotten that lives most different from our own are often where we can learn the most. \\n\\nThe history of humanity is a history of exchange and movement across borders, real and imagined. As someone who lived the better part of decade in Brazil, Belgium, Uganda, and South Africa, often outside of the English language, local historical fiction has played a special role in helping me to better see and understand the language and cultures I\u2019ve found myself in. Aided by photographs and postcards, my writing works to recall emigration stories of earlier generations and by painting them in all their complexity, better understand the world we\u2019ve inherited.\\n\\nI am a debut novelist with a degree in English Literature from the University of Virginia, under the direction of Ann Beattie. In 2016, after ten years in start-ups across South America, Africa and Europe, I left my day-job to commit fully to writing. Fluent in English, Spanish and Portuguese, I live with my partner in an art co-op, outside of New York City.\\n&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:513,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;12&quot;:0}\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4366 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/canserrat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/geoffrey-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/geoffrey-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/canserrat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/geoffrey-342x400.jpg 342w, https:\/\/canserrat.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/geoffrey.jpg 633w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>L&#8217;escriptura imaginativa ens porta a una aventura a trav\u00e9s de la geografia, el temps, la ra\u00e7a i el credo. A l&#8217;transportar-nos a aquests llocs, t\u00e9 el poder de tocar-nos profundament i fer-nos sentir menys sols. Aquest poder, quan est\u00e0 ben aprofitat, ens inspira a veure i\u00a0 comprendre millor el m\u00f3n a trav\u00e9s dels ulls dels altres. En el nostre moment pol\u00edtic tribal, estem perdent aquesta capacitat i, el que \u00e9s pitjor, hem oblidat que les vides m\u00e9s diferents a les nostres s\u00f3n sovint on m\u00e9s podem aprendre.<\/p>\n<p>La hist\u00f2ria de la humanitat \u00e9s una hist\u00f2ria d&#8217;intercanvi i moviment a trav\u00e9s de les fronteres, reals i imagin\u00e0ries. Com alg\u00fa que va viure la major part de la d\u00e8cada al Brasil, B\u00e8lgica, Uganda i Sud-\u00e0frica, sovint fora de l&#8217;idioma angl\u00e8s, la ficci\u00f3 hist\u00f2rica local ha jugat un paper especial per ajudar-me a veure i comprendre millor l&#8217;idioma i les cultures que &#8221;m&#8217;he trobat&#8221;. Ajudat per fotografies i postals, la meva escriptura treballa per recordar hist\u00f2ries d&#8217;emigraci\u00f3 de generacions anteriors i al pintar-les en tota la seva complexitat, m&#8217;ajuda a comprendre millor el m\u00f3n que hem heretat.<\/p>\n<p>S\u00f3c un novel\u00b7lista debut amb un t\u00edtol en Literatura Anglesa de la Universitat de Virg\u00ednia, sota la direcci\u00f3 d&#8217;Ann Beattie. En 2016, despr\u00e9s de deu anys en noves empreses a Am\u00e8rica de Sud, \u00c0frica i Europa, vaig deixar la meva feina di\u00e0ria per comprometre completament a escriure. Amb flu\u00efdesa en angl\u00e8s, espanyol i portugu\u00e8s, visc amb la meva parella en una cooperativa d&#8217;art, fora de la ciutat de Nova York.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>En Geoffrey ha fet la seva resid\u00e8ncia a Can Serrat durant el mes de Gener de 2020.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; L&#8217;escriptura imaginativa ens porta a una aventura a trav\u00e9s de la geografia, el temps, la ra\u00e7a i el credo. A l&#8217;transportar-nos a aquests llocs, t\u00e9 el poder de tocar-nos profundament i fer-nos sentir menys sols. Aquest poder, quan est\u00e0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/geoffrey-alexander-stone\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4367,"href":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4365\/revisions\/4367"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canserrat.org\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}