{"product_id":"essayism","title":"Essayism","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eEssayism\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eBrian Dillon\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781681372822\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eNew York Review Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2018\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e176\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA compelling ode to the essay form and the great essaysists themselves, from Montaigne to Woolf to Sontag.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eEssayism \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 Dillon'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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Essayism | Brian Dillon | Paperback | 9781681372822 | New | Literary Criticism 1209896","offer_id":50550549676290,"sku":"1209896","price":32.07,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/91ww_dq9EwL.jpg?v=1790468882","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/essayism","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}