How Memoirists Mold the Truth - The New York Times.
Aciman’s memoir Out of Egypt (1995), which deals with his life as a Jewish boy in post-colonial Egypt, was reviewed widely and received the Whiting Award.Aciman is a Proust scholar and author of a number of works of nonfiction and fiction about memory. His story concerns a summer romance between two young Jewish men in Italy, an older and a younger.Andre Aciman is a memoirist and essayist whose works include Out of Egypt and False Papers.Born in Alexandria, Egypt, he has also lived in France and Italy. Aciman serves as Chair of Comparative Literature at The CUNY Graduate Center and Director of The Writers' Institute at The Graduate Center.
A Boston Globe Best Nonfiction Book of 2011 Celebrated as one of the most poignant stylists of his generation, Andr Aciman has written a luminous series of linked essays about time, place, identity, and art that show him at his very finest From beautiful and moving pieces about the memory evoked by the scent of lavender to meditations on cities like Barcelona, Rome, ParA Boston Globe Best.Aciman is a Proust scholar and author of a number of works of nonfiction and fiction about memory. His story concerns a summer romance between two young Jewish men in Italy, an older and a younger, deploying an interior lens and with backdrops of ancient Mediterranean thought and family systems.
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, though his brief stay in Europe and finally to the home he's made (and half invented) on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
