Geoff Dyer: An Event About A Book About A Film…
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If nothing else, Geoff Dyer is a polymath who likes to challenge himself. What other conclusion can you arrive at when he subtitles his latest book, Zona, as ‘A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room’? The film in question is Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker which Dyer uses as the starting point for a meditation on cinema, love, life, a missing bag and, um, Jeremy Clarkson. Part of Edinburgh International Book Festival
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Q&A: Geoff Dyer on new book Zona at 2012 Edinburgh International Book Festival
2 Aug 2012
Dyer sets out to unlock Andrew Takovsky's Stalker in new book
Give us five words to describe Zona? My thoughts on Tarkovsky’s film Stalker [Ed: OK, that’s six, but we’ll let Geoff off]. Which author should be more famous than they are now? John Jeremiah Sullivan who wrote Pulphead. He is a great stylist and…
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