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Essayism

Af: Brian Dillon Engelsk Paperback

Essayism

Af: Brian Dillon Engelsk Paperback
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Imagine a type of writing so hard to define its very name means a trial, effort or attempt. An ancient form with an eye on the future, a genre poised between tradition and experiment. The essay wants above all to wander, but also to arrive at symmetry and wholeness; it nurses competing urges to integrity and disarray, perfection and fragmentation, confession and invention.  

  How to write about essays and essayists while staying true to these contradictions? Essayism is a personal, critical and polemical book about the genre, its history and contemporary possibilities. It’s an example of what it describes: an essay that is curious and digressive, exacting yet evasive, a form that would instruct, seduce and mystify in equal measure. Among the essayists to whom he pays tribute – from Virginia Woolf to Georges Perec, Joan Didion to Sir Thomas Browne – Brian Dillon discovers a path back into his own life as a reader, and out of melancholia to a new sense of writing as adventure.

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Imagine a type of writing so hard to define its very name means a trial, effort or attempt. An ancient form with an eye on the future, a genre poised between tradition and experiment. The essay wants above all to wander, but also to arrive at symmetry and wholeness; it nurses competing urges to integrity and disarray, perfection and fragmentation, confession and invention.  

  How to write about essays and essayists while staying true to these contradictions? Essayism is a personal, critical and polemical book about the genre, its history and contemporary possibilities. It’s an example of what it describes: an essay that is curious and digressive, exacting yet evasive, a form that would instruct, seduce and mystify in equal measure. Among the essayists to whom he pays tribute – from Virginia Woolf to Georges Perec, Joan Didion to Sir Thomas Browne – Brian Dillon discovers a path back into his own life as a reader, and out of melancholia to a new sense of writing as adventure.

Produktdetaljer
Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 152
ISBN-13: 9781910695418
Indbinding: Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10: 1910695416
Kategori: Litterære essays
Udg. Dato: 7 jun 2017
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 196mm
Højde: 128mm
Forlag: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Oplagsdato: 7 jun 2017
Forfatter(e): Brian Dillon
Forfatter(e) Brian Dillon


Kategori Litterære essays


ISBN-13 9781910695418


Sprog Engelsk


Indbinding Paperback


Sider 152


Udgave


Længde 18mm


Bredde 196mm


Højde 128mm


Udg. Dato 7 jun 2017


Oplagsdato 7 jun 2017


Forlag Fitzcarraldo Editions

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