Perhaps fragrance is the ultimate mask, the mask between me and the world, between me and me, the other me, the shadow me I trail and get hints of but cannot know, sensing all along that talk of another me is itself the most insidious mask of all. . 0000003885 00000 n Search. 8 0 obj The boy made an effort to blow but wasn’t successful. We can find a . Get updates on events, literary awards, free expression issues, and global news. 0000005810 00000 n 0000001914 00000 n he shares with Proust an ability to plumb the depths of memory and meaning in the observed details of ordinary life . In Alibis, his latest collection of essays, he confronts this central springboard of his work. 220 0 obj << /Linearized 1 /O 223 /H [ 2065 956 ] /L 436683 /E 54882 /N 51 /T 432164 >> endobj xref 220 69 0000000016 00000 n For Aciman, who was poor, speaking Italian self-consciously with a foreign accent, it was a time of shame, yet writing about it helps unlock the ‘numbness’ and encourages ‘dream-making.’ In ‘Temporizing,’ through the personal exploration of his family’s Marrano roots, the author fashions a brilliantly subtle excursus on the craft of a writer such as Proust, who avoids the tyranny of the particular, the day-to-day, by circumventing pain and sorrow at all costs, and passing all experience through ‘the literary time filter.’ Aciman’s own travel essays—on Venice, the Place des Vosges, Tuscany, Barcelona and New York—filter the present through an ever-shifting palette of sensuous memory and impression. . 0000005436 00000 n In each essay, Aciman elegantly palpates these themes of place and displacement (‘dispersion, evasion, ambivalence’). . But these are not simple… More…, “In Aciman's hands [memory] seems fresh and complex once again . The Afterword commentary at the end of the book offers much food for thought, and should not be skipped. 0000005657 00000 n Initiating his young sons into the memories of his youth, in ‘Intimacy,’ involves taking them back to Via Clelia in Rome, where the author 40 years before lived in limbo with his family for three years while waiting for their visas to America. /SA true The tiny pharmacy was filled with luxury beauty products, luxury perfumes, shampoos of all nations, Old World soaps, balms, lotions, striped toothbrushes, badgers, old-empire shaving creams. While the roll call of places visited by Mr. Aciman is unexceptional, his angle on them is anything but, since his weakness for traveling ‘in search of lost time' opens up telescoping possibilities of reverie and speculation. endobj The allusion to Proust . /ColorSpace /DeviceRGB So there is no one to associate it with. You are reminded of the hard-won beauty of it all. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. The essays on Rome, Paris and Barcelona are very interesting and I especially enjoyed his rich descriptions of places. ALIBIS: Essays on Elsewhere User Review - Kirkus. To withdraw your consent, see Your Choices. /BitsPerComponent 8 0000005330 00000 n WorldCat Home About WorldCat Help. Aciman's work is consistently thoughtful and unsentimental . Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. 0000006073 00000 n . A+ Customer Service! . But then perhaps fragrance is nothing more than a meta phor for the “no” I brought to everything I saw when I could so easily have said “yes”— to myself, to my father, to life— perhaps because I never loved any of the things of the world well enough and hoped to hide this fact from myself by thinking I could do better by looking elsewhere, or because I loved and wanted each fragrance and couldn’t determine which to settle for, and therefore stored the very best till a second life rolled in. . 3) Try it out. It may takes up to 1-5 minutes before you received it. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. /Length 9 0 R Miriam Vock und Anna Gronostaj Schriftenreihe des Netzwerk Bildung Umgang mit Heterogenität in Schule und Unterricht 0000006563 00000 n sets the tone. he shares with Proust an ability to plumb the depths of sets the tone. . Sold by LT Trading and ships from Amazon Fulfillment. /Width 300 Aciman's deep fidelity to the world of the senses, and to the translation of those sensations into prose, makes Alibis a delight. 0000006354 00000 n 0000008554 00000 n If his concerns sound weighty, he balances them against a fluid, engaging style, one equally suited to handling painful memories and dear ones alike . Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 25, 2011. “Noch einmal,” she repeated with a tone of gentle entreaty, which reminded me of my own mother when she implored me to do things that were good for me, her voice filled with so vast a store of patience that it suddenly reminded me of how distant I’d grown from the love of others. After viewing product detail pages, look here to find an easy way to navigate back to pages you are interested in. << "—The New York Times Book Review. It seemed as good a destination as any. From André Aciman, the New York Times bestselling author of Call Me By Your Name, comes an eclectic collection of essays on memory and exile inspired by the quiet moments of an introspective traveler. This lambent collection of essays—many of which appeared in slightly altered form in literary magazines—by the author of the memoir Out of Egypt is a reminiscence. I thought I had— on second thought, I wasn’t sure. 0000006746 00000 n Defend free expression, support persecuted writers, and promote literary culture. 0000004044 00000 n André Aciman is a writer in full command of his powers . He constantly revisits scenes of distress and delight in order to spark his writing. What should you do if you spot misinformation being spread in your closest circles? I discovered it one fall evening on my way home after a graduate seminar. 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Sometimes the lost time prospected is his own history, sometimes the history of a place, but the journey is always beguiling and its conclusion often poignant.” —Elizabeth Lowry, The Wall Street Journal, “André Aciman is, quite simply, one of the finest essayists of the last hundred years—you’d have to go back much farther, perhaps a visit to Montaigne, to find the combination of elegance, restraint, and longing that Aciman so generously bestows upon his reader . Always. The basic thesis is that the evolving nature of policy regimes in the financial and monetary spheres has altered in subtle ways the challenges facing the central banking community. Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in. . 0000003725 00000 n I pushed in the glass door as fast as I could, stamping my feet outside before taking shelter within. 0000004990 00000 n All rights reserved. Please try again. Anciman is inspiring. ), Aciman revisits themes that have obsessed him since his youth growing up in Alexandria, when he and his family were waiting for years for visas to migrate to Europe, then the United States. 0000011130 00000 n 0000004196 00000 n 0000003829 00000 n Aciman’s work is consistently thoughtful and unsentimental . Are you an artist at risk or know someone who is? Anticipation—and all the longing it held—proved the ideal, romantic, satisfying state, rather than the actual delivery.

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