Geoff Dyer
British writer whose genre-defying books blend criticism, memoir, and fiction with unmistakable wit. Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi is his most celebrated novel. His book on D.H. Lawrence, Out of Sheer Rage, is one of the great critical books.
Works
- The Colour of MemoryExperimental debut of a photographer, his lover, and their deteriorating relationship
- Jeff in Venice, Death in VaranasiParallel stories of a critic in Venice and a man dying in Varanasi
- The Missing of the SommeMeditation on absence, photography, and remembrance at the Somme
- Out of Sheer RageLiterary journey shaped by frustration with writing about D.H. Lawrence
- ZonaEssay-as-film analyzing Andrei Tarkovsky's seven-hour science fiction masterpiece