TY - BOOK AU - Aciman, Andre TI - HOMO IRREALIS : Essays SN - 9780571366453 U1 - 814.6 PY - 2021////01/01 CY - Great Britain PB - Faber Publication KW - Essays- Literature KW - Imagination KW - Philosophy. KW - Aesthetics KW - Essays- Art KW - Art and Artists N1 - 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 ER -