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André Aciman

André Aciman is Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is the author of the memoir Out of Egypt and four novels: Call Me by Your Name, Eight White Nights, Harvard Square and Enigma Variations. He is currently working on a novel tentatively titled Youth and a collection of essays, Homo Irrealis.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 145
Essays & Memoir | Issue 145

In Freud’s Shadow

André Aciman

‘We all have ways of placing markers on our lives.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 145
Essays & Memoir | Issue 145

Defining Betrayal

Various Contributors

‘I think of betrayal as a crack in the veneer of humanity, an act that reveals to us, and others, our base animal nature.’

Podcasts | Issue 122
Podcasts | Issue 122

André Aciman | Podcast

André Aciman & Yuka Igarashi

André Aciman reads from the work and speaks to Granta’s Yuka Igarashi about the story, the problem with unreliable narrators and modern poetry, and why self-deception and betrayal are good subjects for fiction.

Fiction | Issue 122 padlock
Fiction | Issue 122 padlock

Abingdon Square

André Aciman

‘Your problem is not that you misread signs; it’s that you see them everywhere.’

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