Imagine a type of writing so hard to define its very name means a
trial, effort or attempt. An ancient form with an eye on the
future, a genre poised between tradition and experiment. The essay
wants above all to wander, but also to arrive at symmetry and
wholeness; it nurses competing urges to integrity and disarray,
perfection and fragmentation, confession and invention. How to
write about essays and essayists while staying true to these
contradictions? Essayism is a personal, critical and polemical book
about the genre, its history and contemporary possibilities. It's
an example of what it describes: an essay that is curious and
digressive, exacting yet evasive, a form that would instruct,
seduce and mystify in equal measure. Among the essayists to whom he
pays tribute - from Virginia Woolf to Georges Perec, Joan Didion to
Sir Thomas Browne - Brian Dillon discovers a path back into his own
life as a reader, and out of melancholia to a new sense of writing
as adventure.
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