Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi: A Novel
Jun 2027 · Sold by Picador
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A jaded journalist drifts from the glittering art-world excess of Venice to the ritual intensity of Varanasi, where pleasure and mortality begin to blur into the same exhausted, lucid haze.
When Jeff Atman, a jaded magazine journalist, is dispatched to Venice to cover the Biennale, he promptly dissolves into its familiar choreography of openings, hotel bars, overheard brilliance, and increasingly unconvincing encounters. Nothing quite holds—conversation drifts, attention slips, nights blur into a glittering surface of art, sex, and exhaustion that feels at once excessive and strangely inert.
Then, Jeff finds himself in Varanasi, where the air thickens, the river absorbs everything, and life reorganizes itself around death, ritual, and repetition. If Venice is all shimmer and performance, Varanasi is density and dissolution, but both begin to rhyme in unexpected ways.
In Geoff Dyer’s Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, thoughts interrupt experience as it happens, impressions overlap before they’ve resolved, and meaning keeps shifting a few steps ahead of understanding.
When Jeff Atman, a jaded magazine journalist, is dispatched to Venice to cover the Biennale, he promptly dissolves into its familiar choreography of openings, hotel bars, overheard brilliance, and increasingly unconvincing encounters. Nothing quite holds—conversation drifts, attention slips, nights blur into a glittering surface of art, sex, and exhaustion that feels at once excessive and strangely inert.
Then, Jeff finds himself in Varanasi, where the air thickens, the river absorbs everything, and life reorganizes itself around death, ritual, and repetition. If Venice is all shimmer and performance, Varanasi is density and dissolution, but both begin to rhyme in unexpected ways.
In Geoff Dyer’s Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, thoughts interrupt experience as it happens, impressions overlap before they’ve resolved, and meaning keeps shifting a few steps ahead of understanding.
A jaded journalist drifts from the glittering art-world excess of Venice to the ritual intensity of Varanasi, where pleasure and mortality begin to blur into the same exhausted, lucid haze.
When Jeff Atman, a jaded magazine journalist, is dispatched to Venice to cover the Biennale, he promptly d...
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About the author
Geoff Dyer is the award-winning author of many books, including Out of Sheer Rage, Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It, Zona, See/Saw, The Last Days of Roger Federer, and the essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism). Dyer is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a writer in residence at the University of Southern California. His books have been translated into twenty-six languages.
Geoff Dyer is the award-winning author of many books, including Out of Sheer Rage, Yoga for People Who Can’t Be Bothered to Do It, Zona, See/Saw, The Last Days of Roger Federer, and the essay collection Otherwise Known as the Human Condition (winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award for cri...
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