Aciman, Andre

HOMO IRREALIS : Essays - 1 - Great Britain Faber Publication 2021/01/01 - 239

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.

In Freud's shadow, part 1 --
In Freud's shadow, part 2 --
Cavafy's bed --
Sebald, misspent lives --
Sloan's gaslight --
Evenings with Rohmer --
Adrift in sunlit night --
Elsewhere on screen --
Swann's kiss --
Beethoven's soufflé in A minor --
Almost there --
Corot's Ville-d'Avray --
Unfinished thoughts on Fernando Pessoa.

9780571366453

Purchased Prism Books, Kadavanthra


Essays- Literature
Imagination.
Philosophy.
Aesthetics
Essays- Art
Art and Artists

814.6 / ACI/HO