Brian Dillon (Dublín, 1969) es autor de The Great Explosion (finalista del Premio Ondaatje), Objects in This Mirror, I Am Sitting in a Room, Sanctuary, Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (finalista del Wellcome Book Prize) e In the Dark Room (Irish Book Award para obras de no ficción); en Anagrama ha publicado Ensayismo e Imaginemos una frase. Es profesor de Escritura Creativa en la Queen Mary University of London.
Fotografía del autor © Sophie Davidson
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.
Title : Essayism
EAN : 9781910695425
Publisher : Fitzcarraldo Editions
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