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A review by viragohaus
Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room by Geoff Dyer
4.0
The journey or the destination? Well, both.
Geoff Dyer here works usefully against Milan Kundera's contention that a route 'has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects.'
Dyer's route between his initial viewings of Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker in his 20's and the temporal one described to us in the pages of Zona is footnoted with diversions which are -by turns- delightful, insightful & boneheaded.
The overwhelming reverberation here is the contestable insight that we are responsive early & creativity is the fading, fighting image of those initial impacts. '(Y)ou actually heard - or saw or read - your personal last word years earlier.' (page 128)
Geoff Dyer here works usefully against Milan Kundera's contention that a route 'has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects.'
Dyer's route between his initial viewings of Andrei Tarkovsky's film Stalker in his 20's and the temporal one described to us in the pages of Zona is footnoted with diversions which are -by turns- delightful, insightful & boneheaded.
The overwhelming reverberation here is the contestable insight that we are responsive early & creativity is the fading, fighting image of those initial impacts. '(Y)ou actually heard - or saw or read - your personal last word years earlier.' (page 128)