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Homo irrealis / Homo Irrealis: The Would-Be Man Who Might Have Been: Essays (Spanish Edition)
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Product Details
Author:
André Aciman
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
264
Publisher:
PRH Grupo Editorial (September 5, 2023)
Language:
Spanish
ISBN-13:
9786073828680
ISBN-10:
6073828683
Weight:
11oz
Dimensions:
5.92" x 9.45" x 0.74"
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RandomHouse
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28
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P-RH
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A
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Audience:
General/trade
Country of Origin:
Mexico
Pub Discount:
65
Imprint:
Alfaguara
Overview
«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.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
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.
¿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.
ENGLISH DESCRIPTION
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.
