Homo irrealis

How much of us is erased over time? How long does he stay in loved places? Can one return to a place that never existed beyond your mind?. In Homo irrealis, André Aciman invites us to accompany him to the territory of his memories on a journey through beloved places such as Alexandria, Rome, Paris, Saint Petersburg or New York, inhabited by the ghostly presences of beloved artists and writers. Hand in hand with Proust, Freud, Cavafis, Pessoa, Rohmer, Sebald and many more, the author explores unreal time: that of the man who could have been and was not, everything that could have happened and did not happen, but could still be. happen and is in a limbo between fantasy and reality. Some memoirs in the form of essays in which the author of Far from Egypt and Call me by your name revisits the past and the present, longing and desire, in an attempt to understand the nostalgic vein that hangs over his person and over almost all of his work.