Description
| Product ID: | 9781910695418 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Essayism |
| Authors: | Author: Brian Dillon |
| Page Count: | 152 |
| Subjects: | Literary essays, Literary essays |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| Publisher Name: | Fitzcarraldo Editions |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2017-06-07 |