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Lädt ... The Last Days of Roger Federer: And Other Endingsvon Geoff Dyer
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Self-indulgent, discursive, but also witty, introspective, and honest. You either like it or you don't, and I did. He jumps from topic to topic with each paragraph, but faithfully returns to the theme he's exploring, which is "endings". That could be the end of an era, a relationship, a movement, a career, a life. I didn't like every part of it, but I liked it as a whole. ( ) I tried. I really did. I wanted to like this. I've liked Dyer's essays in the past. I'm "of a certain age," so am interested in ideas about one's productivity, activity, evolution / devolution, and the arc life takes as it bends toward the end. But this... it feels like an assortment of random meanderings that sort-of-kind-of flow into one another, in a sequence of numbered paragraphs, half-pages, pages... stream-of-consciousness almost, trickling down the wall. Not that there isn't some interesting and occasionally engaging stuff here, on writing and writers, art and artists, some sly and punchy assessments. But then if almost any extremely widely-read person with an excellent vocabulary and a sense of humor talks long enough, they're likely to say something interesting at some point. But Dyer just rambles on and on - I never in my life wanted to know this much about the Burning Man festival, and even then it's just about him, or about his weird obsession with shampoo sources, especially for someone who only washes his hair once or twice a week (ick!). Self-indulgent blathering, mostly. Have we no editors? Maybe Dyer is just one who is best consumed in small, structured doses. Geoff Dyer is an interesting writer with a style that is different and often beguiling. He has many enthusiastic fans amongst the great and the good of the literary world. I read and enjoyed Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi about ten years ago and was intrigued by the sound of his latest book, The Last Days of Roger Federer: and Other Endings (Canongate). In it, Dyer explores the final act of so many famous people, institutions, and his own experiences. Bob Dylan, DH Lawrence, JMW Turner, Martin Amis, and Beethoven all feature, along with the author’s own experience and final occasions, such as visiting the Burning Man festival. All are passions for Dyer and his connection with a panoply of topics he explores is clear. In his examination of their last days, he shows us the difference of things at their pomp to how they live out their denouement (or not), and how raging against the dying of the light can be contrasted with the whimper. The common thread is of time running out, a journey we all take in the end; some of us are just a little further along the road than others. Zeige 4 von 4
Despite its title, Geoff Dyer’s The Last Days of Roger Federer is not a book about tennis, but rather, as the 63-year-old writer of other equally hard-to-classify non-fiction puts it, about “things one comes around to at last, late in the day, things one was in danger of going to one’s grave without having read or experienced”. Much of the work is in very short sections, resembling a scrapbook of ideas around this topic. It’s a wide-ranging meditation on decline, on comebacks and on failing abilities, including the failing ability to detect one’s own failing abilities. So far, so glum. But Dyer’s outlook is mostly matter-of-fact and overall one of irritable positivity. He’s often drily humorous, and at times elegiac.
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