Essayism - Brian Dillon

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... Zobrazit více