The Uses of Slime Mould: Essays of Four Decades (British Literature) - Softcover

Mosley, Nicholas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156478360X ISBN 13: 9781564783608

Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press, 2009

Synopsis

Including pieces on Gregory Bateson, William Faulkner, Philip Pullman, Sir Oswald Mosley's politics, religion and stammering, this diverse collection gathers essays written by Nicholas Mosley over the past forty years. Resembling the behaviour of slime mould - a strange organism made up of separate amoebae that temporarily form a single pillar which then bursts in order to scatter its seeds across the forest floor - the ideas found in these essays converge and disperse, crossing over into other disciplines, and creating a unique way of looking at the world, one echoed in Mosley's fictional writings.

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Review:

"While others cling to pessimism as if it is the artist's passport, Mosley strives to communicate the real presence of optimism, its subtlety, its secrecy, its apparent incompatibility with the language."

"Mosley is that rare bird: an English writer whose imagination is genuinely inspired by intellectual conundrums."--Robert Nye, Guardian; "Mosley is the most serious and brilliant of Britain's novelists of ideas." - Robert McFarlane, Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 156478360X
• ISBN 13: 9781564783608
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 222