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Informationen zum Autor Jonathan Dollimore has held professorships at the universities of Sussex and York and lectured and taught throughout the world. He was co-founder (with Alan Sinfield) of the Centre for the Study of Sexual Dissidence at the University of Sussex. His landmark works include Radical Tragedy (1984), Political Shakespeare (with Alan Sinfield,1985), Sexual Dissidence (1991), Death Desire and Loss in Western Culture (1998) and Sex, Literature and Censorship (2001). Klappentext For more than thirty years Jonathan Dollimore has been one of contemporary culture's most influential critics of politics, literature, and sexuality. Part autobiography, part meditation, Desire: A Memoir reveals the existential sources of his inspiration. At once extreme and exemplary, it fearlessly explores the challenge of passion, of gay sex and suicidal depression. Desire: a Memoir is a raw, provocative and often moving account of the life within, beneath, and beyond critical commitment.
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A meditation in the form of a memoir. Rather than a chronological account of Dollimore's life, the narrative is fragmentary, held together by a constant need to unravel the meanings of desire and surmount episodes of deep depression . Dollimore is a fine and intelligent writer who combines personal reminiscences with philosophical musings in ways that stretch the reader . The book ends with an homage to a now dead friend and a sense that in grief there is a renewed desire for life, a fitting conclusion to a book that's both emotionally and intellectually rewarding. The Gay & Lesbian Review
