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"Writing the past is never a neutral act. Writing always asks the past to justify itself, to give its reasons... provided we can live with the reasons. What we want is a narrative, not a log; a tale, not a trial. This is why most people write memoirs using the conventions not of history, but of fiction."

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About Andre Aciman

Andre Aciman is an Egyptian-born Italian-American novelist, essayist, and memoirist. He is best known for the novel Call Me by Your Name and for the memoir Out of Egypt. He teaches at the CUNY Graduate Center as a distinguished professor of comparative literature.

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