Enigma Variations, Paperback

Descriere

From Andr Aciman, the author of Call Me by Your Name (now a major motion picture and the winner of the Oscar(TM) for Best Adapted Screenplay) comes ""a sensory masterclass, absorbing, intelligent, unforgettable"" (Times Literary Supplement).Enigma Variations charts the life of a man named Paul, whose loves remain as consuming and as covetous throughout his adulthood as they were in his adolescence. Whether the setting is southern Italy, where as a boy he has a crush on his parents' cabinetmaker, or a snowbound campus in New England, where his enduring passion for a girl he'll meet again and again over the years is punctuated by anonymous encounters with men--whether he's on a tennis court in Central Park or on a New York sidewalk in early spring. Paul's attachments are ungraspable, transient, and forever underwritten by raw desire. Ahead of every step Paul takes, his hopes, denials, fears, and regrets are always ready to lay their traps. Yet the dream of love lingers. We may not always know what we want. We may remain enigmas to ourselves and to others. But sooner or later, we discover who we've always known we were.

Despre autor

André Aciman

scriitor și profesor italo-american · n. 1951

André Aciman este un scriitor italo-american. Născut și crescut în Alexandria, Egipt, este în prezent profesor distins la Centrul de studii postuniversitare al City University of New York, unde predă istoria teoriei literare și operele lui Marcel Proust. Aciman a predat anterior scrierea creativă la New York University și literatura franceză la Princeton University și Bard College.