Homo Irrealis - Andre Aciman

HomoIrrealis

AndreAciman

Format: Kitap

Barkod: 9780571366453

Cilt Durumu: Ciltsiz

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The bestsellingauthor of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with thiscollection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works.

The irrealis moodknows no boundaries between what is and what isn't, between what happened andwhat won't. In more ways than one, the essay about the artists, writers, andgreat minds gathered in this volume have nothing to do with who I am, or whothey were, and my reading of them may be entirely erroneous. But I misread themthe better to read myself.

From meditations onsubway poetry and the temporal resonances of an empty Italian street, toconsiderations of the lives and work of Sigmund Freud, Constantine Cavafy, W.G. Sebald, John Sloan, Eric Rohmer, Marcel Proust, and Fernando Pessoa, andportraits of cities such as Alexandria and St. Petersburg, Homo Irrealis is adeep reflection of the imagination's power to shape our memories under time'sseemingly intractable hold.