False Papers,9780374299781

False Papers

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ISBN13: 9780374299781
ISBN10: 0374299781
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-07-01
Publisher(s): Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Summary

In these Fourteen Essays, Andre Aciman, One of the most poignant stylists of his generation, dissects the experience of loss, moving from his forced departure from Alexandria as a teenager, through his brief stay in Europe, and finally to the home he's made (and half invented) on Manhattan's Upper West Side.

Author Biography

Andre Aciman teaches literature at Bard.

Table of Contents

Alexandria: The Capital of Memory
3(19)
In Search of Blue
22(15)
Shadow Cities
37(13)
Square Lamartine
50(17)
Letter from Illiers-Combray: In Search of Proust
67(14)
In the Muslim City of Bethlehem
81(15)
Becket's Winter
96(11)
In a Double Exile
107(4)
A Late Lunch
111(4)
Underground
115(6)
A Celestial Omnibus
121(12)
Three Tales
Pensione Eolo
133(14)
Arbitrage
147(18)
Counterintuition
165

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