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André Aciman

André Aciman is most recently the author of Harvard Square, which is published in 2013. He is the chair of the PhD Program in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center and the director of the Writers’ Institute. ‘Abingdon Square’ is taken from a forthcoming book, Moral Tales.

André Aciman on Granta.com

Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir|The Online Edition

Defining Betrayal

Various Contributors

‘As soon as we’ve uncovered and neutralized one strain of self-deception then another is ready to take its place’

Podcasts|The Online Edition
Podcasts|The Online Edition

Podcast: André Aciman

André Aciman & Yuka Igarashi

André Aciman reads from the work and speaks to Granta’s Yuka Igarashi about the story, the problem with unreliable narrators and modern poetry, and why self-deception and betrayal are good subjects for fiction.

Fiction|The Online Editionpadlock
Fiction|The Online Editionpadlock

Abingdon Square

André Aciman

‘Your problem is not that you misread signs; it’s that you see them everywhere.’

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