Essayism Paperback / softback
by Brian Dillon
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:152 pages
- Publisher:Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Publication Date:07/06/2017
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- ISBN:9781910695418
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In Stock - More than 10 copies availableFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:152 pages
- Publisher:Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Publication Date:07/06/2017
- Category:
- ISBN:9781910695418