André Aciman on reading – and poor reading – infection

Each of the novels that make up the new André Aciman book,Room“The complications of how people understand the feelings of others – or fail in it. In this, they share something with many” “Call me in your nameAsiman recently said: “The main feature of the novels he loved is that people are always wrong. My private life has always been to read people and mistake in something else, so it was very useful to find that the great novelists who loved them also in a state of permanent mistakes.” ACIMAN joined us a few weeks ago to discuss some of his favorite “psychological” novels, which follow perceptions – sometimes accurate, cannot be close.

La princesse de clèves

Written by Madam de la Fayette

“La Princesse” is a book I have always had with me – I think I read it first when I was 15 or sixteen. It was published in 1678 and depicted the world as it was a century ago, after personalities in a royal stadium in the mid -hundreds of hundreds. Basically, this is the story of how the married princess and a man falls in love in love just because they danced with each other, and one of them says to the woman, my God, she looks like lovers.

In the entire novel, there is nothing to be mentioned directly. And I love it, because it is my analysis of NClass. The two lovers never speak to each other. They do several times, but it is usually in public places, and always in haste. Instead, they always send each other’s signs.

Ethan Frum

Written by Edith and Erton

The heart of this book is the love triangle. A very inspired woman married to a man is a little soft. When they take the cousin of the woman, Mati, the wife begins to doubt that her husband falls in love with Mati. Indeed, there is a feeling in the story that the two – the husband and his cousin – are in love, but at the same time they avoid each other. One night, for example, when the wife has to disappear, the two are left alone at home, but they do nothing. Today, perhaps they were, but I don’t know. I do not understand how today’s world works. People say, “This is very unrealistic, they should have sex.” But they do not. The only contact that the lovers – and I think they are in great love – is that one of them touches a piece of cloth that the other carried. The moment is short and limited, but it says everything.

whatever

Written by Jin Austin

I think everyone should read “Emma” at least once. It is a great novel. The story follows a young woman, Emma Woodhaus, who believes she is a great conspiracy of marriages. It is very feasible, but it is also very smart and very sympathetic – the reader may be aware of its mistakes, but they also love her. Initially, Emma meets a young man, Frank Churchill, and it seems clear that the two are allocated to each other. But then you learned that he had already promised another woman, Jane Verfax. I left Emma to feel cheating and decide, well, well, I will overcome this. Let’s move. It is a kind of artificial strength of her character, and she works. In the end, although she ends with her knight in a shining shield.

Austin is constantly monitoring and analyzing characters. It analyzes the gene, which looks very shy, but it is actually not. She analyzes Frank, and he is a fool. I think her picture of Emma is great. He shows a woman of twenties with a new sense of power, which constantly extracts the wrong conclusion of things. This constant error is what I love in the analytical imagination, because the mistakes control the situations that are suddenly corrected, just to be undermined again.