Essayism
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Essayism is a personal, critical and polemical book about the genre, its history and its contemporary possibilities, itself an example of what it describes: an essay that is curious and digressive and at the same time held together by a personal voice and a polemical point.
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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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 07 juni 2017
Aantal pagina's: 152
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: Brian Dillon
Hoofduitgeverij: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 150 mm
Product hoogte: 22 mm
Product lengte: 210 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 126 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 17 mm
Verpakking lengte: 199 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 200 g
EAN: 9781910695418