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Geoff Dyer - Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room
Released: 02/02/2012
Canongate Books
The commentator and novelist Geoff Dyer has been obsessed with one sci-fi film for years. Star Wars it isn't, rather the stark, unfathomable Stalker by Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky is the object of his love. Dyer's equally intriguing book is a journey into filmic preoccupation - nearly film criticism but not quite.
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The Scotsman“Dyer is eloquent about his motivation in writing Zona...” It is a work which generates meanings rather than exhausts them by specificity. The loveliness of Dyer’s book is that he could write it again in a decade and it would be different again...
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The Telegraph“Dyer retraces the cinematography faithfully and beautifully...” Dyer keeps remarkably sane. And he seems to do so by digressing wildly. And this keeps us sane. Because no other writer can flex and stretch in digressive prose more congenially than Dyer...
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Financial Times“A springboard to philosophise more generally...” There is nothing so crude as a search for meaning, just a kaleidoscopic array of reference points. Many of these are autobiographical, and most reflect shrewdly on the relationship between watching a movie and living a life...
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