Homo Irrealis By André Aciman

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: January 19, 2021
ISBN: 9780374171872
Pages: 183
Size: 1.79

Jan 19, 2024

Homo Irrealis By André Aciman free pdf download. Homo Irrealis is a compilation of essays by André Aciman, renowned for his New York Times bestselling works “Find Me” and “Call Me by Your Name”. The book delves into the concept of “Irrealis moods”, verbal moods that denote events that are yet to occur, may never occur, or are wished to occur, but lack any indication of their likelihood.

These moods encompass the conditional, the subjunctive, the optative, and the imperative. Aciman employs these moods to probe the perception of time among artists who struggle to seize life in the present. The essays span a variety of topics, from reflections on subway poetry and the temporal echoes of a deserted Italian street to discussions on the lives and works of Sigmund Freud, Constantine Cavafy, W. G. Sebald, John Sloan, Éric Rohmer, Marcel Proust, and Fernando Pessoa.

André Aciman’s book has been lauded for its insightful exploration of the imagination’s ability to mold our memories amidst the seemingly unyielding grasp of time.