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André Aciman (/ ˈ æ s ɪ m ə n /; [1] born 2 January 1951) is an Italian-American writer. Born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, he is currently a distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, where he teaches the history of literary theory and the works of Marcel Proust.
The foreign resident population in Egypt numbered around 200,000 by the end of World War 1. [1] This movement of foreign nationals leaving Egypt was precipitated by various factors such as political instability, the Suez Crisis, the abolition of the capitulations system, and the rise of Egyptian nationalism under Gamal Abdel Nasser.
A. Ahmed Rashad Abdel-khalik; Omar Abdel-Rahman; Alaa Abdelnaby; Mohamed Abdou; Yaser Abu-Mostafa; Abubakr Ali; André Aciman; Ramy Adeeb; Frank Agrama; Ahmed Ahmed
The Guardian wrote "The absence of a conventional sense of story or structure reflects the musical form that Aciman is invoking, making this a clever experiment but also a frustrating one." [2] The New York Times wrote "if you think Aciman has explored this territory before — true, but he’s up to something bolder this time. This book reads ...
Call Me by Your Name is a 2007 coming-of-age novel written by Italian-American writer André Aciman.Set in the 1980s, the novel centers on the sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between student Elio Perlman and visiting American scholar Oliver, chronicling their relationship and the 20 years that follow.
On Books in the Media, the book was rated 3.30 out of 5, based on six critic reviews. [12] In the January/February 2020 issue of Bookmarks, the book was scored 2.5 out of 5. The magazine's critical summary reads: "While readers will ultimately be rewarded by a final chapter that returns to Elio and Oliver, they may not feel the journey has been ...
André Aciman – Out of Egypt; Jean Baudrillard – The Gulf War Did Not Take Place; John G. Bennett (posthumously) – The Masters of Wisdom; George G. Blackburn – The Guns of Normandy; Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, and Joseph M. Williams – The Craft of Research; Pascal Bruckner – The Temptation of Innocence; L. Sprague de Camp ...
André Aciman (born 1951, Egypt) Joseph Addison (1672–1719, England) Theodor W. Adorno (1903–1969, Germany) Sheetal Agashe (born 1977, India) José de Alencar (1829–1877, Brazil) Kingsley Amis (1922–1995, United Kingdom) Martin Amis (1949–2023, United Kingdom) Oswald de Andrade (1890–1954, Brazil) Jacob M. Appel (born 1973, United ...