Resultaten voor 'brian dillon'
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Essayism
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.
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Ambivalence
A coming-of-age memoir set in late-twentieth-century Dublin, recounting writer and critic Brian Dillon's first encounters with pivotal writers in his life--Virginia Woolf, Samuel Beckett, Walter Benjamin, and others--and in the process arguing for the transformative power of art, literature, and learning. Ambivalence is the writer Brian Dillon's coming-of-age memoir set in Ireland between 1987 and 1995. When Dillon was sixteen, his mother died, and he stopped caring about school. While he courted failure, his real education was going on elsewhere: with books, music, films and television. When against all odds he made it to college, his head was already full of avant-garde writing, art, and ideas. Could he live up to the hopes and dreams he attached to culture? Halfway through college his father died, and the stakes of Dillon's education seemed even higher. Ambivalence explores what learning meant to its author, what it enabled and denied, between the ages of seventeen and twenty-six, when he left his native Dublin. It's at once a memoir of that city in the 1980s and 1990s, an uncynical portrait of the adolescent and early-adult mind, and an intimate defense of radical thinking about literature and life. In vivid present-tense fragments, Dillon describes his first encounters with writers such as Virginia Woolf, Walter Benjamin, Samuel Beckett, Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida. He recalls being seduced by ambivalence, ambiguity and androgyny--on the page and in the life he hoped his reading would transfigure. The era he describes seemed to demand new ways of thinking about aesthetics and politics. Today, when rights are fragile, arts and humanities attacked, and students dismissed as radicals or narcissists, Ambivalence is an argument for the poetic and revolutionary force of changing yourself and even the world by changing what you know.
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Ambivalence
A memoir of Dublin in the 1980s and 1990s, and an intimate defence of radical thinking about literature and life, by Brian Dillon, 'one of the true treasures of contemporary literature' (Mark O'Connell).
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Affinities
Written as a series of linked essays, interwoven with a reflection on affinity itself, Affinities completes a trilogy, with Essayism and Suppose a Sentence, about the intimate and abstract pleasures of reading and looking.
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Bir Cümle Varsay
Bazi cümleler akildan hic cikmaz. Kimileri bir aniya kazinmistir, kimileri yillar sonra yeniden karsilasildiginda bambaska anlamlar kazanir. Peki, bir cümleyi unutulmaz kilan nedir Onu digerlerinden ayiran, zihnimizde yankilanmasini saglayan sey ne olabilirBrian Dillon bu kitapta edebiyat tarihinden sectigi cümleleri inceliyor. Virginia Woolfun bir betimlemesi, Gertrude Steinin bir ritmi, Samuel Beckettin belirsiz gerilimi veya Joan Didionin keskin gözlemi Dillonin dikkatinden kacmiyor. Bu kitap, bir elestirmen ve okur olarak Dillon, yillar icinde defterlerine kaydettigi ve üzerine düsündügü cümleleri merkezine alarak, metinler arasinda bir kesif yolculuguna cikiyor.Bir Cümle Varsay, edebiyatin dogasina dair heyecan verici bir sorgulama olmanin yani sira, yazmanin ve okumanin büyüsünü hatirlatiyor.Varsaymak, icat etmek fiiline yakindir Her ikisi de yaratmak, zihinsel olarak üretmek, hayal gücüyle cercevelemek ve calisma ya da arastirma yoluyla kesfetmek anlamina gelir.
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Karanlik Odada
Brian Dillonin ilk kitabi Karanlik Odada, bellegi gerekli gereksiz her nesnenin istiflendigi bir mekan olarak tanimlayarak gecmisin karanlik koridorlarinda dolasiyor. On bes yasinda annesini, bes sene sonra da babasini kaybeden Dillon, yillar sonra yasadigi bir cöküsün ardindan cocukluk evine dönüyor Bu ev artik yalnizca dört duvardan ibaret degildir, ayni zamanda bir anilar ve kayiplar galerisidir.Dillon, bellek ile mekan arasindaki derin baglari kesfederken Baudelaireden Barthesa, Prousttan Bachelarda, Bergerdan Benjamine pek cok düsünürü de bu icsel yolculuga dahil ediyor. Ev, esyalar, fotograflar, bedenler, yerler... Gecmisinin sessiz taniklariyla bir tür yas meditasyonu yaparken ailesinden ve kendisinden geriye kalan döküntüleri topluyor, parcaliyor, yeniden birlestiriyor ve bellegin labirentinde kayboluyor. Karanlik Odada, bireysel bir yas anlatisi olmasinin yaninda, bellegin dogasini ve gecmisle kurdugumuz kirilgan bagi sorgulayan sarsici bir bellek kazisi niteliginde.Ev, annemin her zaman direttigi gibi lanetliydi. Ama ortaya cikti ki lanet benimdi ve geriye dönüktü. Onu terk ettigim sabaha kadar ondan ne kadar nefret ettigimi hic bilmiyordum.
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Hastalik Arzusu
Brian Dillonin edebiyat, müzik, sanat ve bilim camiasinin ünlü dokuz isminin hastalik hastaligina odaklandigi, korkularin zihinle beden arasindaki iliskiyi nasil etkiledigini inceledigi kitabi Hastalik Arzusu, Öyküm Nida Bilgicin cevirisiyle Ilksatir Yayinevinden cikti.Dillon, 2009 Wellcome Kitap Ödülü Kisa Listesinde yer alan mektup, günlük, otobiyografi, röportaj ve taniklardan yola cikarak hazirladigi kitabinda, saglik kaygisiyla yaraticilik arasinda bir bag olup olmadigini da sorguluyor.Ingiliz yazar ve sair Charlotte Bront, hastaliklari sayesinde sorumluluklarindan kacip yazmaya vakit ayirdi. Amerikali sanatci Andy Warhol, hem hastaliktan hem de hastalik fikrinden korkardi. Fransiz yazar Marcel Proust sanatsal yönünü evhamlariyla cizerdi. Glenn Gould omzuna dostca vurulan bir darbenin piyano calma yetenegini yok ettigini iddia ederdi. Alman hukukcu Daniel Paul Schreber ise bedeninin Tanri ve doktorlar tarafindan ele gecirildigine inanirdi.
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Closet
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Affinities
"Brian Dillon was born in Dublin in 1969. His books include Essayism, The Great Explosion (shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize), Objects in This Mirror, I Am Sitting in a Room, Sanctuary, Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize), and In the Dark Room, which won the Irish Book Award for nonfiction. His writing has appeared in The Guardian, The New York Times, London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Bookforum, frieze, and Artforum. He is the UK editor of Cabinet magazine and teaches creative writing at Queen Mary University of London"--
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Denemecilik
Brian Dillon, cagdas sanatta ve kültür teorisinde harabeler, ünlü hastalik hastalari ve kent hafizasi üzerine kitaplari olan, kendi hayatindan yola cikarak, kayiplar ve kalanlar üzerine yazdigi In the Dark Room kitabiyla da ödüle kavusmus bir yazar, Cabinet dergisinin editörü ve bir akademisyen.Brian Dillon, Denemecilikte, bir tür olarak denemeciligi; kökenler, listeler, dagilma, üslup, savurganlik, ayrinti, tutarlilik, merak ve avunma gibi cesitli basliklarda irdeliyor, parcalara ayiriyor ve sonra bir araya getiriyor. Deneme teriminin etimolojik kökenlerine, Montaigneden baslayarak günümüz yazarlarina, W. G. Sebald, Georges Perec ve Elizabeth Hardwick gibi isimlere deginen kitap; denemenin kapsamlarina ve olanaklarina isik tutuyor. Vaazlar, diyaloglar, listeler ve anketler, basili kücük anaforlar ya da tekil denemeler olarak yorumlanan kitaplar la örülen Denemecilik, Dillonin kendi kisisel ve edebi gecmisinden de bircok iz tasiyor.Deneme, konusunun özünü yani püf noktasini ifade etmeyi, dolayisiyla bir tür cila ve bütünlügü amaclar, ayni zamanda da sahip oldugu bakis acisinin kismi oldugu, eksik olmanin da kendi icinde bir deger oldugu, cünkü yazan zihnin cesur ve merakli ama tutuk dogasini daha iyi yansittigi konusunda israr etmek ister.
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Suppose a Sentence
"This is a New York Review book"--Copyright page.
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Suppose a Sentence
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