International Literature Festival Dublin presents Holding The Mirage: André Aciman
The Italian Institute of Culture Dublin proudly supports the participation to ILFD of best-selling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name, discussing memory, mirage, and the mood of the fantasy life.
In his new essay collection Homo Irrealis, Aciman turns his attention to the state of mind where we spend most of our time, “the might-be and the might-have-been.” This irrealis mood knows no boundaries between what is and what isn’t, between what happened and what won’t: Aciman describes it as “a mirage of the world that artists long to hold.” From meditations on subway poetry and an empty Italian street to Freud, Sebald, Proust and others via portraits of cities including Alexandria and St. Petersburg, Homo Irrealis is a deep reflection of the imagination’s power to shape our memories under time’s seemingly intractable hold.
Aciman will be in conversation with journalist and cultural critic Helen Meany and take questions from the audience.
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