布莱恩·狄龙：散文主义 Essayism Brian Dillon

基本信息

Format:Paperback / softback 152 pages

Publisher:Fitzcarraldo Editions

Imprint:Fitzcarraldo Editions

ISBN:9781910695418

Published:7 Jun 2017

Weight:208g

Dimensions:128 x 196 x 18 (mm)

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍简介

想象一下，一种难以定义的写作类型，其名称本身就意味着一种试验、努力或尝试。这是一种古老的、着眼于未来的形式，一种在传统和实验之间徘徊的体裁。散文首先想要徘徊，但也想要达到对称和完整；它在完整和混乱、支离破碎、忏悔和发明方面的冲动相互竞争。

如何在忠实于这些矛盾的同时写好散文和散文家？散文主义》是一本关于散文体裁、其历史和当代可能性的个人、批判和论战的书。它是它所描述的一个例子：散文是好奇和离题的，是严谨而又回避的，是一种可以指导、诱惑和神秘化的形式。在他致敬的散文家中--从弗吉尼亚-伍尔夫到乔治-佩雷克，从琼-迪迪翁到托马斯-布朗爵士--布莱恩-狄龙发现了一条回到他自己作为读者的生活的道路，并走出忧郁症，对写作作为冒险的新感觉。

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.

作者信息

Rebecca Weber，达特茅斯学院，美国新罕布什尔州汉诺威，美国

Rebecca Weber, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA