{"product_id":"homo-irrealis-essays-andre-aciman","title":"Homo Irrealis: Essays;  Andre Aciman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrrealis moods are a category of verbal moods that\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eindicate that certain events have not happened,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003emay never happen, or should or must or are indeed\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003edesired to happen, but for which there is no indication\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethat they will ever happen. Irrealis moods\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eare also known as counterfactual moods and include\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe conditional, the subjunctive, the optative,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eand the imperative--all best expressed in this\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ebook as the might-be and the might-have-been.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of the great prose stylists of his generation, Andr� Aciman returns to the essay form in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHomo Irrealis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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, �ric Rohmer, Marcel Proust, and Fernando Pessoa and portraits of cities such as Alexandria and St. Petersburg, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHomo Irrealis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a deep reflection on the imagination's power to forge a zone outside of time's intractable hold.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJanuary 19, 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAndré Aciman was born in Alexandria, Egypt and is an American memoirist, essayist, novelist, and scholar of seventeenth-century literature. He has also written many essays and reviews on Marcel Proust. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, The Paris Review, The New Republic, Condé Nast Traveler as well as in many volumes of The Best American Essays. Aciman received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Harvard University, has taught at Princeton and Bard and is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at The CUNY Graduate Center. He is currently chair of the Ph. D. Program in Comparative Literature and founder and director of The Writers' Institute at the Graduate Center.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAciman is the author of the Whiting Award-winning memoir Out of Egypt (1995), an account of his childhood as a Jew growing up in post-colonial Egypt. Aciman has published two other books: False Papers: Essays in Exile and Memory (2001), and a novel Call Me By Your Name (2007), which was chosen as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and won the Lambda Literary Award for Men's Fiction (2008). His forthcoming novel Eight White Nights (FSG) will be published on February 14, 2010\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FREEAIR Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49899161977154,"sku":"","price":9.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/8735\/3154\/files\/homoirreal.jpg?v=1729182534","url":"https:\/\/shop.freeairbooks.com\/products\/homo-irrealis-essays-andre-aciman","provider":"FREEAIR Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}