Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction

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Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction

A compelling ode to the essay form and the great essaysists themselves, from Montaigne to Woolf to Sontag.

Essayism is a book about essays and essayists, a study of melancholy and depression, a love letter to belle-lettrists, and an account of the indispensable lifelines of reading and writing. Brian Dillonâ€™s style incorporates diverse features of the essay. By turns agglomerative, associative, digressive, curious, passionate, and dispassionate, his is a branching book of possibilities, seeking consolation and direction from Michel de Montaigne, Virginia Woolf, Roland Barthes, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Georges Perec, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Susan Sontag, to name just a few of his influences. Whether he is writing on origins, aphorisms, coherence, vulnerability, anxiety, or a number of other subjects, his command of language, his erudition, and his own personal history serve not so much to illuminate or magnify the subject as to discover it anew through a kaleidoscopic alignment of attention, thought, and feeling, a dazzling and momentary suspension of disparate elements, again and again.
Country USA
Brand New York Review of Books
Manufacturer New York Review Books
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 1681372827-localization
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2018-09-18
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781681372822

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review of Books
Manufacturer	New York Review Books
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	1681372827-localization
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2018-09-18
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781681372822

Essayism: On Form, Feeling, and Nonfiction

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