{"product_id":"homo-irrealis-the-would-be-man-who-might-have-been-essays-paperback","title":"Homo Irrealis: The Would-Be Man Who Might Have Been: Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndré Aciman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eFind Me \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCall Me by Your Name \u003c\/i\u003ereturns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and works. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrrealis moods are a category of verbal moods that \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eindicate that certain events have not happened, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003emay never happen, or should or must or are indeed \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003edesired to happen, but for which there is no indication \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethat they will ever happen. Irrealis moods \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eare also known as counterfactual moods and include \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ethe conditional, the subjunctive, the optative, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eand the imperative--all best expressed in this \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ebook as the might-be and the might-have-been. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of the great prose stylists of his generation, André Aciman returns to the essay form in \u003ci\u003eHomo Irrealis\u003c\/i\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, Éric Rohmer, Marcel Proust, and Fernando Pessoa and portraits of cities such as Alexandria and St. Petersburg, \u003ci\u003eHomo Irrealis\u003c\/i\u003e is a deep reflection on the imagination's power to forge a zone outside of time's intractable hold.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndré Aciman\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eCall Me by Your Name\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFind Me\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEight White Nights\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOut of Egypt\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e False Papers\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAlibis\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarvard Square\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEnigma Variations\u003c\/i\u003e, and is the editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Proust Project\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and lives with his wife in Manhattan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 08, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47395454091442,"sku":"9781250829283","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/94f7f98f15571bffb4ae8f02620ba9e3.webp?v=1777990274","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/homo-irrealis-the-would-be-man-who-might-have-been-essays-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}