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Essayism
Engelsk Paperback
Essayism
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.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
152
ISBN-13:
9781910695418
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1910695416
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
7 jun 2017
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
196mm
Højde:
128mm
Forlag:
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Oplagsdato:
7 jun 2017
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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