{"product_id":"book-dwh8","title":"Homo Irrealis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis program includes an introduction read by the author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eIrrealis moods are the set of verbal moods that indicate that something is not actually the case or a certain situation or action is not known to have happened …\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAndré Aciman returns to the essay form in \u003ci\u003eHomo Irrealis\u003c\/i\u003e to explore what the present tense means to artists who cannot grasp the here and now. Irrealis is not about the present, or the past, or the future, but about what might have been but never was-but could in theory still happen.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom meditations on subway poetry and the temporal resonances of an empty Italian street, to considerations of the lives and work of Sigmund Freud, Constantine 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\u003eis a deep reflection of the imagination's power to shape our memories under time's seemingly intractable hold. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49367499768112,"sku":"BDdwh8","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/dwh8-Square-cover.jpg?v=1782448323","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dwh8","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}