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Homo Irrealis: Signed Edition (Paperback)

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Paperback 256 Pages
Published: 21/01/2021
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Through the lives and works of great minds from Proust to Sebald, this elegant collection of essays from the author of Call Me by Your Name explores the significance of possibility to our understanding of time, memory and reality.

Signed bookplate edition

A standard edition is available here.

In Homo Irrealis Andre Aciman explores 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, Eric 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.

Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571368754
Number of pages: 256
Dimensions: 216 x 135 mm
Edition: Main

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