Homo Irrealis. Essays

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 P. Cavafy, W. G. Sebald, John Sloan, Eric 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.