As for the Brioches
Clarence Brown, 2 November 1995
“... invulnerable to all the manifold miseries of later Lebanese history. I begin this account of André Aciman’s Out of Egypt with a fragment of my own autobiography to make a point about the Platonic geography that is involved. His actual Alexandria (where he was born in 1951, only a year before I boarded that ship) is as innocent of my footprints as ... ”