Андре Асиман

"Андре Асимана называют одним из важнейших романистов современности. Его новая книга — «Энигма-вариации» — повествует о жизни Пола, любовные интересы которого остаются столь же волнующими и загадочными в зрелости, сколь и в юности, — будь то влечение к семейному краснодеревщику на юге Италии, одержимость теннисистом из Центрального парка, влюбленность в подругу, которую он встречает каждые четыре...

In Enigma Variations, Aciman maps the most inscrutable corners of passion, proving to be an unsparing reader of the human psyche and a master stylist. With language at once lyrical, bare-knuckled, and unabashedly candid, he casts a sensuous, shimmering light over each facet of desire to probe how we ache, want, and waver, and ultimately how we sometimes falter and let go of those who may want to o...

A passionate portrait of love?s contradictory power, in five illuminating stories.

This richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty prose, Andre Aciman introduces us to the marvelous eccentrics who shaped his life--Uncle Vili, the strutting daredevil, soldier, salesman, and spy; the two grandmothers, the Princess and the Saint, wh...

It?s the fall of 1977, and amid the lovely, leafy streets of Cambridge a young Harvard graduate student, a Jew from Egypt, longs more than anything to become an assimilated American and a professor of literature. He spends his days in a pleasant blur of seventeenth-century fiction, but when he meets a brash, charismatic Arab cab driver in a Harvard Square cafe, everything changes.

From a youthful infatuation with a cabinet maker in a small Italian fishing village, to a passionate yet sporadic affair with a woman in New York, to an obsession with a man he meets at a tennis court, Enigma Variations charts one man's path through the great loves of his life. Paul's intense desires, losses and longings draw him closer, not to a defined orientation, but to an understand...

"Андре Асимана называют одним из важнейших романистов современности. Его новая книга — «Энигма-вариации» — повествует о жизни Пола, любовные интересы которого остаются столь же волнующими и загадочными в зрелости, сколь и в юности, — будь то влечение к семейному краснодеревщику на юге Италии, одержимость теннисистом из Центрального парка, влюбленность в подругу, которую он встречает каждые четыре...

In Enigma Variations, Aciman maps the most inscrutable corners of passion, proving to be an unsparing reader of the human psyche and a master stylist. With language at once lyrical, bare-knuckled, and unabashedly candid, he casts a sensuous, shimmering light over each facet of desire to probe how we ache, want, and waver, and ultimately how we sometimes falter and let go of those who may want to o...

A passionate portrait of love?s contradictory power, in five illuminating stories.

This richly colored memoir chronicles the exploits of a flamboyant Jewish family, from its bold arrival in cosmopolitan Alexandria to its defeated exodus three generations later. In elegant and witty prose, Andre Aciman introduces us to the marvelous eccentrics who shaped his life--Uncle Vili, the strutting daredevil, soldier, salesman, and spy; the two grandmothers, the Princess and the Saint, wh...