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050	0	0	_aPN4500 _b.D55 2017
100	1		_aDillon, Brian, _d1969- _eauthor. _9982
245	1	0	_aEssayism / _cBrian Dillon.
260			_aLondon, United Kingdom : _bFitzcarraldo Editions, _c2017.
300			_a138 pages ; _c20 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aImagine 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. -- Back cover.
650		0	_aEssay. _92261
650		0	_aEssayists. _912144
650		0	_aEssay _xAuthorship. _92261
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