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Understanding a Photograph
Contains essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W Eugene Smith - and the lives of those photographed - with fierce engagement, intensity and tenderness.
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Out of Sheer Rage
Sitting down to write a book about his hero D.H. Lawrence, Geoff Dyer finds himself compelled to write about anything else. He is in fact compelled to do more or less anything else instead of write. In Sicily he is too preoccupied by his hatred of seafood to follow the great writer's footsteps; in Mexico he cannot get beyond a drug-induced erotic fantasy on a nudist beach . . . And yet, incredibly, this attempt to write a 'sober academic study' reveals the hold Lawrence and his work still exert on us today. Out of Sheer Rage is a complete one-off, a richly comic study of the combination of bad temper, procrastination and the uncanny power of obliquity.
€ 13,00 -
Homework
The first memoir from Geoff Dyer, author of Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, recollecting his childhood and coming of age in postwar Britain
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Homework
Named a most anticipated book of 2025 by Vulture | The Guardian | Financial Times | The Observer | The Times (London) | Literary Hub"A picture of postwar England unlike any other . . . A highly original memoir that will provoke, amuse, beguile-and endure." -Antony Quinn, Financial Times"Homework is wonderful Geoff-Dyer writing, which we've all learned to crave; something to delight and to move us and to edify us on every page. I find him an irresistible writer." -Richard FordA portrait of a young boy, who keeps passing exams-and of a changing England in the 1960s and 1970s.The only child of a sheet-metal worker and a dinner lady who worked at the canteen of the local school, Geoff Dyer grew up in a world shaped by memories of the Depression and the Second World War. But far from being a story of hardship overcome, this loving memoir is a celebration of opportunities afforded by the postwar settlement, of which the author was an unconscious beneficiary. The crux comes at the age of eleven with the exam that decided the future of generations of British schoolkids: secondary modern or the transformative possibilities of grammar school? One of the lucky winners, Dyer goes to grammar school, where he develops a love of literature (and beer and prog rock).Mapping a path from primary school through the tribulations of teenage sport, gig-going, romantic fumblings, fights (well, getting punched in the face), and other misadventures with comic affection, Homework takes us to the threshold of university, where Dyer gets the first intimations that a short geographical journey-just forty miles-might extend to the length of a life.Recalling an eroded but strangely resilient England, Homework traces, in perfectly phrased and hilarious detail, roots that extend into the deep foundations of class society.
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Denizde Yine Mükemmel Bir Gün
Geoff Dyer cocukken saatlerce model savas ucaklari yapip boyardi. 2011de ise bir cocukluk rüyasini gerceklestirdi ve USS George H. W. Bush adli ucak gemisinde iki hafta gecirme sansina eristi. Denizde Yine Mükemmel Bir Günde yazar, ucus güvertesinin kilometrelerce uzunluktaki yürüme yollari ve ayrintili düzeninden bes bin kisilik mürettebata yemek sunan mutfaklara, mancinik ve tutuklama tertibatinin sagir edici karmasikligina kadar ucak gemisi dünyasinin rutinleri ve protokollerinde edindigi izlenimleri aktariyor. Insani sürekli gelismeye, daha iyisini yapmaya tesvik eden Amerikan dünyasinda Ingiliz kültürüyle yetismis olan yazar, gemideki günlük yasami zekice kayit altina alarak, bunun, disiplin ve uyumun, adanmislik ve iyimserligin kendini ifade etme bicimleri haline geldigi bir toplumu anlamak icin bir prizma oldugunu ortaya koyuyor. Belli bir türün kaliplarina hapsedilemeyecek Denizde Yine Mükemmel Bir Günde yazarin neden cagdas edebiyatin en özgün Sve en komik seslerinden biri olarak övüldügü gayet iyi anlasiliyor.
€ 15,99 -
Uit pure woede
De jonge, getalenteerde schrijver Geoff Dyer staat stijf van de eerbied voor het schrijversvak en is vastbesloten een belangrijke studie over D.H. Lawrence af te werken. Tussendoor denkt hij na over een roman die hij wil schrijven en overweegt hij Parijs te verlaten om bij zijn vriendin in Rome in te trekken – of nee, misschien toch eerder een tijdje de wereld rond te reizen. Uit pure woede is Dyers intelligente en bij uitstek geestige relaas van zijn jarenlange strijd om zijn Lawrenceboek tot een goed einde te brengen. Een portret van een gekwelde, opgewonden en uitgeputte man moet het worden. Dyer reist de hele wereld rond terwijl hij niet alleen worstelt met zijn fascinerende onderwerp, maar ook met de heerlijke afleidingen en nijpende angsten die het leven van een schrijver kenmerken. Uit pure woede werd vertaald door Ivo Verheyen.
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Missing of the Somme
A deeply personal meditation on remembrance, art, and World War I by the legendary Geoff Dyer, reissued with a new introduction by Drew Gilpin FaustThe Missing of the Somme is part travelogue, part meditation on remembrance-and completely, unabashedly unlike any other book about the First World War. Through visits to battlefields and memorials, Geoff Dyer examines the way that photographs and film, poetry and prose, determined-sometimes in advance of the events described-the way we would think about and remember the war. With his characteristic originality and insight, Dyer untangles and reconstructs the network of myth and memory that illuminates our understanding of, and relationship to, the Great War. Reissued with a new introduction, The Missing of the Somme stands as one of Dyer's classic works.
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De laatste dagen van Roger Federer
Wat gebeurt er als artiesten ouder worden? Wordt hun werk rijper, of verschrompelt het? In deze betoverende meditatie zet Geoff Dyer zijn eigen kennismaking met de late middelbare leeftijd af tegen het laatste werk van schrijvers, schilders, voetballers, muzikanten en tennissterren die voor hem belangrijk zijn. Met speelse charme en indringende intelligentie vertelt hij over Friedrich Nietzsches inzinking in Turijn, J.M.W. Turners schilderijen van geabstraheerd licht, John Coltranes kosmische melodieën, Björn Borgs nederlagen en Beethovens laatste kwartetten. Dyer spreekt zijn bewondering uit voor onbehouwen genieën die de conventie trotseren en daar ook mee doorgaan wanneer hun jeugd voorbij is. De laatste dagen van Roger Federer springt van kunstkritiek- over autobiografie naar humoristisch geklets van de ernstigste soort. Een perfecte, caleidoscopische introductie tot het steeds sluwe en vrolijke werk van Geoff Dyer. De laatste dagen van Roger Federer werd vertaald door Ivo Verheyen.
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The Last Days of Roger Federer
A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEKIn this endlessly stimulating investigation into ?things coming to an end, artists' last works, time running out', Geoff Dyer sets his own encounter with late middle age against the last days and last achievements of writers, painters, athletes and musicians who've mattered to him throughout his life. He examines Friedrich Nietzsche's breakdown in Turin, Bob Dylan's reinventions of old songs, Beethoven's final quartets and much more.
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See / Saw
Wide-ranging and eclectic' TLS'Seductively curious' Observer?A visual and intellectual journey' HeraldSee/Saw is an illuminating history of how photographs frame and change our perspectives. Starting from single images by the world's most important photographers - from Eugène Atget to Alex Webb - Geoff Dyer shows us how to read a photograph, as he takes us through a series of close readings that are by turns moving, funny, prescient and surprising.
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Bir Hisimla
Geoff Dyer meslegine gönülden bagli, kabiliyetli genc bir yazardir. Hayran oldugu büyük yazar D. H. Lawrence üzerine bir inceleme yazmaya karar verir. Ancak ne zaman masanin basina gecse, bir türlü calismasina odaklanamaz. Dikkatini dagitansa... hemen her seydirOtobiyografik roman, gezi, edebiyat incelemesi, itirafname, taslama, ani, anlati... Cagdas Ingiliz edebiyatinin ustalarindan Geoff Dyer, en sevilen kitabi Bir Hisimlada edebiyatin belli basi türleri arasinda kendi usulünce mekik dokuyor. D. H. Lawrencein yasamini cok farkli bir yaklasimla ele almasi bir yana, hayat, özgürlük, melankoli, sorumluluklar, yazmak, bir yere ait olmak ya da olmamak, hatta, olmak ya da olmamak gibi agir meseleler hakkinda da, deyim yerindeyse, döktürüyor...Bir D. H. Lawrence müptelasinin ic dünyasini son derece eglenceli ve özgün bir sekilde anlatiyor. -Alain de Botton-Muhtesem... yan cizmek üzerine fevkalade bir kitap. Bu bir yana, Lawrencei bildigim kitaplarin hepsinden daha iyi anlatiyor. -James Wood, Guardian-Edebiyat elestirisinin adini kötüye cikaran kitaplardan. Cok da komik. -John Berger-Okudugum en komik kitap. -Steve Martin-Komik ve kendini-baltalama raddesinde dobra, üslubundaki Nabokovvari dokunuslar da cabasi. -William Boyd-
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Zona
En derindeki arzunuz nedirNe oldugunu bildiginizden gercekten emin misinizGerceklesirse neler olacagini hic düsündünüz müCagdas Ingiliz edebiyatinin en önemli yazarlarindan Geoff Dyer, onda derin izler birakarak hayata bakisini degistiren filmin, sinema tarihinin en büyük yönetmenlerinden Andrey Tarkovskinin basyapiti Stalkerin Iz Sürücü dünyasina macerali bir yolculuga cikiyor. Stalkeri plan plan analiz eden; filmin akil almaz cekim öyküsüyle sinema tarihindeki yerini anlatan Geoff Dyer kimi zaman bir sahnenin ona hatirlattiklariyla yoldan cikip anilarin, gecmisin sisli dünyasinda geziniyor. Felsefeye, varolusa ve hatta inanca dair ciddi sorulari sormaktan da asla geri durmuyor. Böylece Stalker yoluyla hayatin anlamini sorgulayan; hem sanat üretiminde hem de günlük yasantimizda dünyaca nasil da hizla vasatlastigimizi anlatan türlerarasi unutulmaz bir kitap haline geliyor, adini Tarkovskinin yarattigi Bölgeden alan Zona.
€ 11,99