Otherwise known as the human condition: selected essays and reviews

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Sinopse

Geoff Dyer has earned the devotion of passionate fans on both sides of the Atlantic through his wildly inventive, romantic novels as well as several brilliant, uncategorizable works of nonfiction. All the while he has been writing some of the wittiest, most incisive criticism we have on an astonishing array of subjects—music, literature, photography, and travel journalism—that, in Dyer’s expert hands, becomes a kind of irresistible self-reportage. Otherwise Known as the Human Condition collects twenty-five years of essays, reviews, and misadventures. Here he is pursuing the shadow of Camus in Algeria and remembering life on the dole in Brixton in the 1980s; reflecting on Richard Avedon and Ruth Orkin, on the status of jazz and the wonderous Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, on the sculptor ZadKine and the saxophonist David Murray (in the same essay), on his heroes Rebecca West and Ryszard Kapus´cin´ski, on haute couture and sex in hotels. Whatever he writes about, his responses never fail to surprise. For Dyer there is no division between the reflective work of the critic and the novelist’s commitment to lived experience: they are mutually illuminating ways to sharpen our perceptions. His is the rare body of work that manages to both frame our world and enlarge it.

Participantes

Autor: Geoff Dyer

Autor

GEOFF DYER

O jornalista e escritor Geoff Dyer nasceu em 1958, em Cheltenham, na Inglaterra. Conhecido pelo estilo irônico, quase debochado, Dyer parte de reflexões íntimas para discutir temas universais, numa mistura sutil de ficção e não ficção. Autor, entre outros, do romance Jeff em Veneza, Morte em Varanasi, publicado no Brasil em 2010, Dyer remete ao chamado ensaio pessoal, estilo que permeia todas as suas obras, dos artigos sobre viagens (reunidos em Ioga para quem não está nem aí, 2007) à miscelânea de textos curtos de Otherwise known as the human condition (2011).