Reviews
"A breathless, sketched rendering of one man's life in love, Aciman's novel speaks earnestly not only of longing and lust, but also of more complicated emotions . . . [Aciman] portrays Paul convincingly as a sensuous and self-aware figure, forever treading the border between melodrama and tragedy." -- Publishers Weekly "Is there any writer out there who can conjure the seismic swings and loop-the-loop giddiness of sexual infatuation the way that Andr Aciman can? He first revealed this talent in his debut novel, Call Me By Your Name , the book that sealed his reputation along with his sublime memoir, Out of Egypt . . . The allure of Enigma Variations rests in its agile sense of the heart's paradoxes and might-have-beens." --Michael Upchurch, Boston Globe, "Aciman writes arousal so beautifully you miss it when it's gone . . . [Aciman is] up to something bolder this time . . . Aciman is all the way himself here. He writes with the ferocity of a writer who's finally getting his vision down, and he has to say it, has to get it out. He's made a magnificent, living thing." --Paul Lisicky, New York Times Book Review "A breathless, sketched rendering of one man's life in love, Aciman's novel speaks earnestly not only of longing and lust, but also of more complicated emotions . . . [Aciman] portrays Paul convincingly as a sensuous and self-aware figure, forever treading the border between melodrama and tragedy." -- Publishers Weekly "Is there any writer out there who can conjure the seismic swings and loop-the-loop giddiness of sexual infatuation the way that Andr Aciman can? He first revealed this talent in his debut novel, Call Me By Your Name , the book that sealed his reputation along with his sublime memoir, Out of Egypt . . . The allure of Enigma Variations rests in its agile sense of the heart's paradoxes and might-have-beens." --Michael Upchurch, Boston Globe, "A breathless, sketched rendering of one man's life in love, Aciman's novel speaks earnestly not only of longing and lust, but also of more complicated emotions . . . [Aciman] portrays Paul convincingly as a sensuous and self-aware figure, forever treading the border between melodrama and tragedy." -- Publishers Weekly, Praise for The Proust Project "André Aciman is our consummate Proustian . . . Aciman has taken to heart the author's injunction to use In Search of Lost Time as a personal darkroom-to dip the negatives of one's own memories into the magic solution Proust provides." -Thomas Meaney, Bookforum, "Aciman writes arousal so beautifully you miss it when it's gone . . . [Aciman is] up to something bolder this time . . . Aciman is all the way himself here. He writes with the ferocity of a writer who's finally getting his vision down, and he has to say it, has to get it out. He's made a magnificent, living thing." --Paul Lisicky, New York Times Book Review "A breathless, sketched rendering of one man's life in love, Aciman's novel speaks earnestly not only of longing and lust, but also of more complicated emotions . . . [Aciman] portrays Paul convincingly as a sensuous and self-aware figure, forever treading the border between melodrama and tragedy." -- Publishers Weekly "Is there any writer out there who can conjure the seismic swings and loop-the-loop giddiness of sexual infatuation the way that André Aciman can? He first revealed this talent in his debut novel, Call Me By Your Name , the book that sealed his reputation along with his sublime memoir, Out of Egypt . . . The allure of Enigma Variations rests in its agile sense of the heart's paradoxes and might-have-beens." --Michael Upchurch, Boston Globe, "Aciman writes arousal so beautifully you miss it when it's gone . . . [Aciman is] up to something bolder this time . . . Aciman is all the way himself here. He writes with the ferocity of a writer who's finally getting his vision down, and he has to say it, has to get it out. He's made a magnificent, living thing." --Paul Lisicky, New York Times Book Review "A breathless, sketched rendering of one man's life in love, Aciman's novel speaks earnestly not only of longing and lust, but also of more complicated emotions . . . [Aciman] portrays Paul convincingly as a sensuous and self-aware figure, forever treading the border between melodrama and tragedy." -- Publishers Weekly "Is there any writer out there who can conjure the seismic swings and loop-the-loop giddiness of sexual infatuation the way that Andr Aciman can? He first revealed this talent in his debut novel, Call Me By Your Name , the book that sealed his reputation along with his sublime memoir, Out of Egypt . . . The allure of Enigma Variations rests in its agile sense of the heart's paradoxes and might-have-beens." --Michael Upchurch, Boston Globe "Aciman writes arousal so beautifully you miss it when it's gone . . . [Aciman is] up to something bolder this time . . . Aciman is all the way himself here. He writes with the ferocity of a writer who's finally getting his vision down, and he has to say it, has to get it out. He's made a magnificent, living thing." --Paul Lisicky, New York Times Book Review
