[HN Gopher] All over the Shop: A Conversation with Geoff Dyer
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       All over the Shop: A Conversation with Geoff Dyer
        
       Author : lermontov
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2021-04-04 04:04 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | Mediterraneo10 wrote:
       | Geoff Dyer's _Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a
       | Room_ is one of the most disappointing books I have ever read,
       | and it is even rather appalling. The title makes the book seem
       | ostensibly about Andrei Tarkovsky 's great 1979 film, and Dyer
       | does say a few remarks about it. But then he starts drifting off
       | into anecdotes that have nothing to do with the purported subject
       | of his book, like the time he had a threesome with two women.
       | Ultimately Dyer's book feels, well, _parasitic_ on Tarkovsky.
       | Dyer is using the Soviet auteur and his film to lend prestige to
       | his own writing that few would consider otherwise.
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       | I wonder if we get such a writer once a generation or so. I have
       | felt the same about some of Marguerite Yourcenar's work which
       | ostensibly responds to another artist's work but without actually
       | illuminating it much, instead just serving to boost Yourcenar's
       | own profile.
        
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