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Il Sesso Nelle Camere D'albergo: Saggi (1989-2010) (2014)

by Geoff Dyer(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

8806212516 (ISBN13: 9788806212513)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Einaudi

review 1: Ok... this got very close to a five star rating. So why not...? I got the last section of the book - the "autobiographical" essays, and they let the book down... well, really, that are a tad self indulgent, Mr Dyer! Not that I can't relate to the excesses of the 1980's, I was there and I lived to tell the tale too. Aside from that I do like, actually love Dyer's writing, and this collection is wonderful. He is at his best when talking about photography and jazz, his insights are incisive, clear and erudite. while reading this I was filling my notebook with comments - photographers work to search out, musical lists being added to etc etc I gave up on adding books to my to read list. I've enjoyed this guy for years, and he just keeps getting better. I look forward to his ... morelatest about Tarkovsky's film Zone, even though I ever likely to watch the film ... you don't need to!And I've just seen that he's just won the National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. Well done!
review 2: If you're looking to bone up on the kind of stuff that might come in handy at an academic faculty cocktail party or museum curators social, this might be a good start. Otherwise, the title is the best thing about this book. I was seduced by the title and the back cover, which described him as, "writing some of the wittiest, most incisive criticism...on an astonishing array of subjects that... becomes a kind of irresistible self-reportage". I was expecting... something that was not a self-professed elitist writing obnoxious odes to photographs (intro to one essay on a photo: "Works of art urge us to respond in kind and so, looking at this photograph my reaction expresses itself as a vow: I will never love another photograph more.") The two essays on Fitzgerald were enjoyable, as was the on his trip to Algiers to pay homage to Camus, but these were subjects I already had ties to. The essays I didn't have a relationship with I couldn't read; some I couldn't even figure out what the subject was. The only article that did teach me something new was his essay on Kapuacinski and that was a good sell Since I will probably never be an undercover agent trying to schmooze with academics while on assignment, I don't feel like I lost any opportunities by neglecting essays like, "Oradour-sur-Glane", "Def Leppard and the Anthropology of Supermodenity, or, "Is Jazz Dead?" less

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