#  Video: On Exile and Elsewhere 

 





October 03, 2018

 

 

André Aciman, author of *Call Me by Your Name*, and writer Benjamin Balint discuss themes of exile and homecoming, of time, place, identity, and art across Aciman’s works of fiction and nonfiction.

André Aciman is the author of *Enigma Variations*, *Call Me by Your Name*, *Out of Egypt*, and *False Papers*, and is the editor of *The Proust Project* (all published by FSG). He teaches comparative literature at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He lives with his wife and family in Manhattan.

Benjamin Balint is a library fellow at the Van Leer Institute in Jerusalem. He has written for the *Wall Street Journal*, the *Weekly Standard*, and *Die Zeit*, and his translations from the Hebrew have appeared in the *New Yorker*. He is the author of *Kafka’s Last Trial: The Case of a Literary Legacy* and, with Merav Mack, *Jerusalem: City of the Book* (forthcoming).



 

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 Harvard Divinity School · On Exile and Elsewhere: André Aciman in Conversation with Benjamin Balint 

 



 

 

 

 



 

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