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Geoff Dyer (Cheltenham, 5 de junio de 1958) es un escritor británico. Biografía Nacido en un ambiente humilde, obtuvo una beca para estudiar inglés en el Corpus Christi College de la Universidad de Oxford. Una vez terminados sus estudios, marchó a Estados Unidos. Casado con Rebecca Wilson, comisaria de arte, trabajó como conservador jefe de la galería virtual Saatchi Art en Los Ángeles. Publicó en 1987 un ensayo sobre el escritor John Berger (Ways of Telling: Work of John Berger) y dos años más tarde su primera novela, titulada El color del recuerdo (The Colour of Memory, 1989) que tuvo gran éxito, como también ocurrió con su novela Ver Venecia, morir en Varanasi (Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi), aparecida en 2000.[1][2][3] En 1992 recibió el premio Somerset Maugham por su trabajo Jazz impro (But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz) y el Premio del Círculo de Críticos Nacional del Libro en 2011 por la selección de críticas Otherwise Known as the Human Condition. En marzo de 2014, hizo público que fue víctima de un accidente cerebrovascular menor, poco después de haberse trasladado a Venice, un barrio de Los Ángeles, en California. Es miembro de la Royal Society of Literature desde 2005. Obras Novelas The Colour of Memory (1989) The Search (1993) Paris Trance (1998) Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi (2009) Ensayo Ways of Telling: Work of John Berger (1987) But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz (1991) The Missing of the Somme (1994) Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D.H. Lawrence (1997) Anglo-English Attitudes: Essays, Reviews, Misadventures, 1984-98 (1999) Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It (2003) The Ongoing Moment (2005) Working the Room: Essays and Reviews: 1999-2009 (2010) Otherwise Known as the Human Condition: Selected Essays and Reviews (2011) Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room (2012) Another Great Day at Sea: Life Aboard the USS George H.W. Bush (2014) Referencias Vínculos externos (en inglés) Site de l’auteur Geoff Dyer en MusicBrainz. Descubre los libros populares de John Berger Geoff Dyer. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de John Berger Geoff Dyer
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Selected Essays of John Berger
John BergerThe writing career of Booker Prize winner John Berger–poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist–has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and lif...
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Picnic Comma Lightning
Laurence ScottA BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK 'Laurence Scott … writes beautifully about the experience of reality in the digital age, and about how grief changes our perceptions … I’m besotted w...
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Kraftwerk
Uwe SchütteThe story of the phenomenon that is Kraftwerk, and how they revolutionised our cultural landscape'We are not artists nor musicians. We are workers.' Ignoring nearly all rock tradit...
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Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
Roland Barthes & Richard HowardThe only autobiography by the great Roland Barthes, philosopher, literary theorist and semiotician.This is the autobiography of one of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. ...
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Life with a Capital L
D. H. Lawrence & Geoff DyerA brilliantly varied new selection of D. H. Lawrence's essays, chosen and introduced by Geoff DyerFor D. H. Lawrence the novel was the pinnacle, 'the one bright book of life', ye...
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On Photography
Susan SontagSusan Sontag's On Photography is a seminal and groundbreaking work on the subject.Susan Sontag's groundbreaking critique of photography asks forceful questions about the moral and ...
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Blind Spot
Teju ColeThe shadow of a tree in upstate New York. A hotel room in Switzerland. A young stranger in the Congo. In Blind Spot, readers will follow Teju Cole's inimitable artistic vision into...
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Understanding a Photograph
John Berger & Geoff DyerJohn Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces w...