Geoff Dyer: The Last Days of Roger Federer – And Other Endings

Описание: Joining us live on stage at The Conduit, the award-winning author of Out of Sheer Rage and Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It will bring his playful charm and penetrating intelligence to bear on the last days of some of the great men and women who’ve mattered to him throughout his life.

He will examine Friedrich Nietzsche’s breakdown in Turin, Bob Dylan’s reinventions of old songs, J.W. Turner’s paintings of abstracted light, John Coltrane’s cosmic melodies, Jean Rhys’s return from the dead (while still alive) and Beethoven’s final quartets – and consider the intensifications and modifications of experience that come when an ending is within sight. Oh, and there’s stuff about Roger Federer and tennis too!

This talk on last things is also about how to go on living with art and beauty, on the entrancing effect and sudden illumination that an Art Pepper solo or an Annie Dillard reflection can engender in even the most jaded sensibilities.

This event is in partnership with the How To Academy.