Homo Irrealis von André Aciman
Essays

Kategorie: Bücher
Seiten / Format: 256 S
Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
Verlag: Macmillan USFarrar, Straus and Giroux
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN: 9780374603724

"Aciman's latest conveys with grace and insight his longing to apprehend'myself looking out to the self I am today.'A resplendent collection from a writer who never disappoints."-Kirkus Reviews<br><br>"One feels that if Proust had not existed, Mr. Aciman would have invented him."-Richard Bernstein,The New York Times<br><br>"André Aciman is, quite simply, one of the finest essayists of the last hundred years."-Susan Salter Reynolds,Los Angeles Review of Books

TheNew York Times-bestselling author ofFind MeandCall Me by Your Namereturns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works<br><br>Irrealis moods are a category of verbal moods thatindicate that certain events have not happened,may never happen, or should or must or are indeeddesired to happen, but for which there is no indicationthat they will ever happen. Irrealis moodsare also known as counterfactual moods and includethe conditional, the subjunctive, the optative,and the imperative-all best expressed in thisbook as the might-be and the might-have-been.<br><br>One of the great prose stylists of his generation, André Aciman returns to the essay form inHomo Irrealisto explore what time means to artists who cannot grasp life in the present. Irrealis moods are not about the present or the past or the future; they are about what might have been but never was but could in theory still happen. From meditations on subway poetry and the temporal resonances of an empty Italian street to considerations of the lives and work of Sigmund Freud, C. P. Cavafy, W. G. Sebald, John Sloan,Éric Rohmer, Marcel Proust, and Fernando Pessoa and portraits of cities such as Alexandria and St. Petersburg,Homo Irrealisis a deep reflection on the imagination's power to forge a zone outside of time's intractable hold.

USNominiert: PEN Literary Award - Finalist 2022.
Nominiert: Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year 2021André Acimanis theNew York Timesbestselling author ofCall Me By Your Name, Out of Egypt, Eight White Nights, False Papers, Alibis,Harvard Square,Enigma Variations, andFind Me. He's the editor ofThe Proust Projectand teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his wife in Manhattan.

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