Bibliograph

Tunnel vision, Kevin Breathnach

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Tunnel vision, Kevin Breathnach

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

essays

Main title

Tunnel vision

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Kevin Breathnach

Summary

Tunnel Vision is a book unlike any other. A portrait of the narrator's relationships in his mid-twenties; a memoir based in Dublin that follows his travels to Paris, Gwangju, Munich, and Madrid; a reckoning with addictions to drugs and pornography; a tragi-comedy of sexual repression; the autobiography of a compulsive liar; a meditation on artifice and honesty. Yet this intimacy comes into collision with essays of piercingly intelligent criticism of art, photography, and architecture, written with the intellectual precision of John Berger, Geoff Dyer, or Teju Cole. Whether dissecting European architecture's obsession with historical loss, or the male gaze in photographer Andre Kertesz's work, Breathnach's writing heralds a dazzling new voice in literary prose

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