{"product_id":"brian-dillon-essayism","title":"Brian Dillon. Essayism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-sheets-root=\"1\"\u003eImagine 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. \u003cbr\u003eHow 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SIA \"Zuzeum\"","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58853306630475,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0881\/8750\/2923\/files\/477_c486dddc-fcda-4301-885c-3eaedd911687.png?v=1792064153","url":"https:\/\/zandele.shop\/products\/brian-dillon-essayism","provider":"SIA \"Zuzeum\"","version":"1.0","type":"link"}