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LATEST REVIEW OF TESSERAE

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QUAQUAVERSAL

Posted on May 7, 2016 by | 1 comment

QUAQUAVERSAL
5/7/2016 3:22:44 PM

I feel compelled, as a writer, to introduce you to my own idiosyncratic ways of going about writing a story. The creative process, as I observe, might prove of worth to reveal as I experience it. After finishing and publishing TESSERAE: A MEMOIR OF TWO SUMMERS I lay fallow. I never know what the next book will be about but I do know that I will begin something as my need to write has not been stifled by age or an arthritic mind. I observe myself or as Krishnamurti wrote, “The observer is the observed.” Chew on that for a while. So, over the past

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SAMPLE HOST PAGE: The Wonderings of One Person

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Tesserae: A Memoir of Two Summer by Mathias B. Freese Book Tour

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LATEST REVIEW FROM EUROPE

Posted on May 4, 2016 by | Leave a comment

Life’s struggles, adversaries, and miseries offers material for a novel like this on time-beings. Well done!

ByHenk-Jan van der Klison April 27, 2016
Format: Paperback
In 2015 I reviewed I Truly Lament: Working Through the Holocaust. Mathias B. Freese’s latest title, the memoir Tesserae: A Memoir of Two Summers, discloses the memories since the author’s birth in 1940 up to 2015 with a focus on 2 life-changing summers in Woodstock. 1968 and 1969 were pivotal in entering adulthood. As retired psychotherapist Freese uses both a therapist, himself, his son and a wife as alternating protagonists in this novel. “What I knew of my limited world was hand fed to me in pieces, tessera, haphazardly at that, and I had no inner apparatus to understand my feelings or sense of it.” Tessara should be plural here, as much as homo sapien had to be homo sapiens. So far my editorial comments on the use of Latin. The author uses words to feed his readers bit by bit, sometimes repeating himself, jumping back and forth in time, to make sense of his own life. He uses films, books, important events in history ranging from the Korean War and the first landing on the Moon, to frame his coming of age.

His Jewish roots versus Christian culture makes him whisper Amazing Grace. His repressive and sexual agnostic youth was countered by the discovery of naked Big Beautiful Woman and failing relationships with merely ordinary specimens. Woodstock for him is Time itself. Now in his seventies, Freese has a compelling gravity to look back to the past, to remember, relive and transfer to e.g. his son Jordan. But life is larger than words, the author’s more than the personality he described in Tesserae. Life’s struggles, adversaries, and miseries offers material for a novel like this on time-beings. Well done!

 

 

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