Suppose a Sentence

von Brian Dillon

232 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

A captivating meditation on the power of the sentence by the author of Essayism, a 2018 New Yorker book of the year.

In Suppose a Sentence, Brian Dillon, whom John Banville has called "a literary flâneur in the tradition of Baudelaire and Walter Benjamin," has written a sequel of sorts to Essayism, turning his attention to the oblique and complex pleasures of the sentence. A series of essays prompted by a single sentence--from Shakespeare to James Baldwin, John Ruskin to Joan Didion--this new book explores style, voice, and language, along with the subjectivity of reading. Both an exercise in practical criticism and a set of experiments or challenges, Suppose a Sentence is a polemical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Biografien und Sachliteratur Essays
• ISBN: 9781681375243
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 22.09.2020
• Größe: 216 x 149 mm
• Verlag: New York Review of Books