In the Dark Room

Brian Dillon

ISBN 10: 1910695726 / ISBN 13: 9781910695722

Published by Fitzcarraldo Editions - HUB Feb 2018, 2018

About this Item

Neuware - A delicate examination of memory and grief from the author of Essayism (published by NYRB in September 2018. Melds personal reflections with insights on the works of writers and artists including Barthes, Proust, Rachel Whiteread and Nabokov. In the Dark Room will appeal to fans of Maggie Nelson, and has a recent endorsement by John Banville and a new foreword by Frances Wilson. Originally published in 2005, In the Dark Room is the author's first book and won the Irish Book Award for non-fiction. Author is a critic and reviewer for the London Review of Books, Guardian and New York Times.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In the Dark Room
• Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions - HUB Feb 2018
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1910695726
• ISBN 13: 9781910695722
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 195W x 126H x 25D millimeters 195 millimeters width by 126 millimeters height by 25 millimeters depth
• Weight: 336 grams

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Synopsis

Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly, In the Dark Room explores the question of how memory works emotionally and culturally. It is narrated through the prism of the author's experience of losing both his parents, his mother when he was sixteen, his father when he was on the cusp of adulthood and of trying, after a breakdown some years later, to piece things together. Drawing on the lessons of centuries of literature, philosophy and visual art, Dillon interprets the relics of his parents and of his childhood in a singularly original and arresting piece of writing reissued for the first time since its original publication in 2005, and including a new foreword from prize-winning biographer Frances Wilson.

About the Author

Brian Dillon was born in Dublin in 1969. His books include Essayism, The Great Explosion (shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize), Objects in This Mirror: Essays, I Am Sitting in a Room, Sanctuary, Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (shortlisted for the Wellcome Book Prize) and In the Dark Room, which won the Irish Book Award for non-fiction. His writing has appeared in the Guardian, New York Times, London Review of Books, Times Literary Supplement, Bookforum, frieze and Artforum. He is UK editor of Cabinet magazine, and teaches Creative Writing at Queen Mary, University of London.