Homo Irrealis explores 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. A deep reflection on the imagination's power to forge a zone outside of time's intractable hold.
"Aciman's latest conveys with grace and insight his longing to apprehend 'myself looking out to the self I am today.' A resplendent collection from a writer who never disappoints." -Kirkus Reviews
"One feels that if Proust had not existed, Mr. Aciman would have invented him." -Richard Bernstein, The New York Times
"André Aciman is, quite simply, one of the finest essayists of the last hundred years." -Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Review of Books
"One feels that if Proust had not existed, Mr. Aciman would have invented him." -Richard Bernstein, The New York Times
"André Aciman is, quite simply, one of the finest essayists of the last hundred years." -Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Review of Books