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Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature.
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Suppose a Sentence is a critical and personal reflection on the art of the sentence in literature. It is both an experiment in the attentive form of the essay—asking what happens, and where one might wander, when as readers and writers we pay minute attention to the language before us—and a polemic for certain kinds of experiment in prose.
In a series of essays, each taking a single sentence as its starting point, the book explores style, voice, and context. But it also uses its subjects—from George Eliot to Joan Didion, John Donne to Annie Dillard, Anne Carson to Rachel Cusk—to ask what the sentence is today and what it might become next.
With this brilliant sequel of sorts to his acclaimed Essayism, Brian Dillon confirms he is one of the very best essayists at work today.
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Reviews of Suppose a Sentence by Brian Dillon highlight the book as an eclectic and thoughtful exploration of individual sentences chosen purely out of affinity. Critics praise Dillon's passion for sentence crafting, describing the book as a treasure trove of appreciation and literary originality, with an engaging and personable narrative style. It is regarded as a delightful, thought-provoking collection that sparks curiosity about linguistic beauty and the art of writing.
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ISBN: 9781913097011
Publisher: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 23 September 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Fitzcarraldo Editions
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 127.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 160
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About the Author
Brian Dillon is a freelance writer and critic. He is the editor of Ruins (Whitechapel Gallery/MIT Press, 2011) and author of The Great Explosion (Penguin, 2015), Objects in This Mirror (Sternberg Press, 2014), I Am Sitting in a Room (Cabinet, 2011), Sanctuary (Sternberg Press, 2011), Tormented Hope: Nine Hypochondriac Lives (Penguin, 2009), which was shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Book Prize, and In the Dark Room (Penguin, 2005) which won the Irish Book Award for non-fiction. Dillon writes regularly on art, books and culture for such publications as the Guardian, the London Review of Books, the IrishTimes, Artforum and frieze. He is Tutor in Critical Writing at the Royal College of Art and UK editor of Cabinet, a quarterly of art and culture based in New York.
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