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by André Aciman (Author)

«Si Proust no hubiera existido, Aciman lo habría inventado. Richard Bernstein, The New York Times

Cuánto de nosotros se borra con el paso del tiempo? Cuánto se queda en los lugares amados? Puede uno regresar a un sitio que nunca existió más allá de su mente? En Homo irrealis, André Aciman nos invita a acompañarlo al territorio de sus recuerdos en un viaje por lugares queridos como Alejandría, Roma, París, San Petersburgo o Nueva York, habitados por las presencias fantasmales de artistas y escritores admirados. De la mano de Proust, Freud, Cavafis, Pessoa, Rohmer, Sebald y muchos más, el autor explora el tiempo irrealis: el del hombre que podría haber sido y no fue, todo lo que podría haber pasado y no pasó, pero que aún podría pasar y está en un limbo entre la fantasía y la realidad. Unas memorias en forma de ensayos en las que el autor de Lejos de Egipto y de Llámame por tu nombre se enfrenta al pasado y al presente, al anhelo y al deseo, en un intento de comprender la veta nostálgica que se cierne sobre su persona y sobre casi toda su obra.

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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 a category of verbal moods that indicate that certain events have not happened, may never happen, or should or must or are indeed desired to happen, but for which there is no indication that they will ever happen. Irrealis moods are also known as counterfactual moods and include the conditional, the subjunctive, the optative, and the imperative―all best expressed in this book as the might-be and the might-have-been.

One of the great prose stylists of his generation, André Aciman returns to the essay form in Homo Irrealis to 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 Irrealis is a deep reflection on the imagination's power to forge a zone outside of time's intractable hold.


Author Biography

André Aciman nació en 1951 en Alejandría, en el seno de una familia judía sefardí de origen turco. Formado en la Universidad de Harvard, ha sido profesor de Literatura Comparada y de Escritura Creativa en el Bard College y en las universidades de Princeton y Nueva York. En cuanto a su labor creativa, es muy conocido como ensayista y estudioso de la obra de Marcel Proust. En 1996 vio la luz Lejos de Egipto, un libro de memorias sobre su infancia y adolescencia que mereció el prestigioso Whiting Award. Posteriormente publicó la recopilación de ensayos False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory, la novela Ocho noches blancas y participó como coautor y editor en las obras Letters of Transit y The Proust Project. Alfaguara ha publicado Variaciones Enigma (2019); Llámame por tu nombre (2008), su primera novela, llevada al cine con gran éxito por Luca Guadagnino y que obtuvo el Lambda Literary Award y la distinción como mejor libro del año de Publishers Weekly y The Washington Post; y Encuéntrame (2020), su esperada secuela. Homo irrealis es su último libro.

Number of Pages: 264
Dimensions: 0.9 x 9.5 x 5.9 IN
Publication Date: September 05, 2023

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