Homo Irrealis: Essays

Written by André Aciman

Narrated by André Aciman and Edoardo Ballerini

This program includes an introduction read by the author.

The New York Times–bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works.

Irrealis moods are the set of verbal moods that indicate that something is not actually the case or a certain situation or action is not known to have happened . . .

André Aciman returns to the essay form in Homo Irrealis to explore what the present tense means to artists who cannot grasp the here and now. Irrealis is not about the present, or the past, or the future, but 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, 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.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Audio
• Release date: Jan 19, 2021
• ISBN: 9781250794697

André Aciman

André Aciman (Alejandría, Egipto, 1951), se trasladó a vivir a Italia con sus padres a los quince años y más tarde se afincaron en Nueva York. Allí se graduó en lengua inglesa en el Lehman College y obtuvo un doctorado en literatura comparada en la Universidad de Harvard. Es profesor de literatura comparada e imparte clases sobre la obra de Proust en el Graduate Center de la City University de Nueva York, donde dirige el Writers’ Institute. También ha impartido clases de escritura creativa en la Universidad de Nueva York y de literatura francesa en la Universidad de Princeton. Es el autor de las novelas Llámame por tu nombre y Ocho noches blancas, de las memorias Out of Egypt (Premio Whiting Writers’) y de los ensayos False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory y Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere; además es el editor de The Proust Project. Vive en Nueva York.

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