Reading Time
4 hrs 21 mins
How long to read Homo Irrealis?
The estimated word count of Homo Irrealis is 65,100 words.
A person reading at the average speed of 250 words/min, will finish the book in 4 hrs 21 mins. At a slower speed of 150 words/min, they will finish it in 7 hrs 14 mins. At a faster speed of 450 words/min, they will finish it in 2 hrs 25 mins.
| Homo Irrealis - 65,100 words | ||
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| Reading Speed | Time to Read | |
| Slow | 150 words/min | 7 hrs 14 mins |
| Average | 250 words/min | 4 hrs 21 mins |
| Fast | 450 words/min | 2 hrs 25 mins |
- Authors
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André Aciman
More about Homo Irrealis
65,100 words
Word Count
for Homo Irrealis
256 pages
Pages
7 hours
Audiobook length
Description
The New York Times–bestselling author of Find Me and Call Me by Your Name returns to the essay form with his collection of thoughts on time, the creative mind, and great lives and worksIrrealis moods are the set of verbal moods that indicate that something is not actually the case or a certain situation or action is not known to have happened . . .André Aciman returns to the essay form in Homo Irrealis to explore what the present tense means to artists who cannot grasp the here and now. Irrealis is not about the present, or the past, or the future, but about what might have been but never was―but could in theory still happen.From meditations on subway poetry and the temporal resonances of an empty Italian street, to considerations of the lives and work of Sigmund Freud, Constantine Cavafy, W. G. Sebald, John Sloan, Éric Rohmer, Marcel Proust, and Fernando Pessoa, and portraits of cities such as Alexandria and St. Petersburg, Homo Irrealis is a deep reflection of the imagination’s power to shape our memories under time’s seemingly intractable hold.