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False Papers
Product Details
ISBN: 9780312420055
Format: Paperback
Publish Date: 09/08/01
Publisher: Picador USA
Item Number: STMRP242005
The essays in this collection ruminate on the dilemmas of exile, which include understanding that one's memory of a place one was forced to leave is often sweeter than the place itself was. This author, for instance, left Alexandria, Egypt, when he was a young boy, and though he relishes his memories of it, he relishes his ability to remember it even more. A New York Times Notable Book for the year 2000.
Contains linked essays that ponder the experience of loss, moving from the author's forced departure from Alexandria as a teenager, through his brief stay in Europe, and finally to the home he's made on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Reprint.
Contains linked essays that ponder the experience of loss, moving from the author's forced departure from Alexandria as a teenager, through his brief stay in Europe, and finally to the home he's made on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Reprint.
Review 1:
"Someone once said that nostalgia was the most beautiful word in the language, in any language. Like the cruelest month, it mixes memory and desire, but what is it exactly that we remember, and what do we desire? In his beguiling new book of essays, FALSE PAPERS, André Aciman gives these questions deep, lyrical and melancholy reflection....[R]eading these essays, with their almost languid appreciation for the nuances and subtleties of consciousness, one feels that if Proust had not existed, Mr. Aciman would have invented him."
07/20/2000
Review 2:
"...Aciman's collection has much to offer, for it is full of moments that lead to more reading, to Matisse and Mozart, to thinking about the past and its pull on us."
September/October 2000
Review 3:
"Aciman's elegant pieces recall the leisurely, reflective essays of Walter Benjamin and Michel Butor, like them evoking a world that has disappeared."
06/01/2000
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