SANCTUARY

Berlin, Germany: Sternberg Press, 2011. First Edition. First Printing.. Hardcover. As New/No Dust Jacket, As Issued.. Berlin, Germany: Sternberg Press, 2011. Hardcover. As New/None, As Issued. First Edition/First Printing. 90 pages. The author's fictional account. One of Brian Dillon's finest achievements. The first and only edition. Published in a small and limited print run as a hardcover original only. It is neither a British nor American Edition as it was published in Berlin, Germany. As such, it is a German Edition even though it is in English. An austerely elegant production by Sternberg Press: Very small-size volume format. Blue cloth boards with red titles embossed on the cover and spine, as issued. Text by Brian Dillon. Matching red page edges. Printed on archival stock paper in Berlin to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Brian Dillon's "Sanctuary". Dissolves the arbitrary line between essayistic speculation and pure fiction: The narrative as philosophical essay, Irish Roman Catholicism vis-a-vis European cosmopolitanism. "Set in the ruins of a Modernist building on the outskirts of a city in Northern Europe. The structure, a Catholic seminary built in the 1960's and abandoned twenty years later, embodies the failure of certain ambitions: Architectural, civic, and spiritual. But it is the site, too, of a more recent disappearance. A young artist, intent on exploring the complex and its history, has gone missing among the wreckage. Months later, his lover visits the place, unsure what she is looking for, and finds herself drawn into the strange nexus of energies and memories that persist there. A story about what survives of bodies, ideas, objects, and the artistic or literary forms that might describe them in the wake of catastrophe. Invokes key works of the last century: The fiction of Samuel Beckett and Alain Robbe-Grillet, the art of Robert Smithson, the films of Alfred Hitchcock, Chris Marker, and Andrei Tarkovsky" (Publisher's blurb). An absolute "must-have" title for Brian Dillon collectors. This copy is very prominently, beautifully, and elaborately signed in blue ink-pen on the title page by Brian Dillon. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. This title is now collectible. As far as we know, this is the only such signed copy of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare signed copy thus. One of the most brilliant essayist/writers of our time. A fine copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER BRIAN DILLON TITLE IN OUR CATALOG). ISBN 1933128879.