Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemonis a Bosnian-born American fiction writer, essayist, and critic. His best known novels are Nowhere Manand The Lazarus Project...
NationalityBosniak
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth9 September 1964
forever shadow nightmare
Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.
distance home two
It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often hard to perform at home.
home two parent
I have two homes, like someone who leaves their hometown and/or parents and then establishes a life elsewhere. They might say that they're going home when they return to see old friends or parents, but then they go home as well when they go to where they live now. Sarajevo is home, Chicago is home.
inspiration believe writing
I don't believe in inspiration. I write when I can't avoid writing anymore.
mother daughter zero
Our daughter was born in Chicago, and she's already showing it. The temperature has to be approaching zero for her to wear a hat.
real silly effort
There are moments in life when it is all turned inside out--what is real becomes unreal, what is unreal becomes tangible, and all your levelheaded efforts to keep a tight ontological control are rendered silly and indulgent.
fall sky piano
We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.
brain mind consciousness
One of the many conditions that have to be met for a brain to become a mind, and therefore have consciousness, is 'the analog I' around which all the simultaneous inflow of sensations and stimulations are reflected and organized.
home nowhere-to-go world
If you can't go home, there is nowhere to go, and nowhere is the biggest place in the world-indeed, nowhere is the world.
cities soul geography
I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.
thinking winning losing
I much preferred winning to thinking and I didn't like losing at all.
educational purpose needs
Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.
thinking looks used
When I look at my old pictures, all I can see is what I used to be but am no longer. I think: What I can see is what I am not.
flower past reality
One builds one's life in consistency; one invests it with the belief, however unsupported by reality, that one has always been what one is now, that even in one's distant past one could recognize the seed from which this doomed flower has bloomed.