Andre Aciman

Trivia

• His books include Out of Egypt (1996), regarded by the New York Times as “a classic memoir of modern Jewish life”; False Papers: Essays on Exile and Memory (2001); the novel Call Me By Your Name (2007), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; and his edited volume, The Proust Project (2004), wherein twenty-eight writers comment on their favorite passages from In Search of Lost Time.
• He is also a much-published essayist, memoirist, and fiction writer, as well as executive officer of the doctoral program in comparative literature, and founder and director of the Writers Institute, where nonfiction writers develop their craft under the guidance of leading New York City editors.
• André Aciman, Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature, is a Proust specialist and a scholar of seventeenth-century French literature.

Quotes

• "All that remains is dreammaking and strange remembrance."
• "As we walked, I began to wonder what the opposite of molting was and why, unlike the body, which sheds everything, the soul cannot let go but compiles and accumulates, growing annual rings around the things it wants and dreams and remembers"