André Aciman

The irrealis mood knows no boundaries between what is and what isn’t, between what happened and what won’t. In more ways than one, the essay about the artists, writers, and great minds gathered in this volume have nothing to do with who I am, or who they were, and my reading of them may be entirely erroneous. But I misread them the better to read myself.From meditations on subway poetry and the temporal resonances of an empty Italian street, to considerations of the lives and work of Sigmund Freud, Constantine Cavafy, W. G. Sebald, John Sloan, Éric Rohmer, Marcel Proust, and Fernando Pessoa, and portraits of cities such as Alexandria and St. Petersburg, Homo Irrealis is a deep reflection of the imagination’s power to shape our memories under time’s seemingly intractable hold.
El carrito está deshabilitado momentáneamente.
ISBN
9780571366460
Autores
André Aciman
Idiomas
Inglés
Año de publicación
2022
Editorial
Faber & Faber
Categoría
Ensayo
Géneros
Filosofía, Non Fiction, Social Subjects, Essays
Peso
0.1234