· by Daniel Mendelsohn ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 12, An account of the lessons learned by a son and his father as they study the Greek epic together. There have been plenty of gimmicky books about returning to the classics and unearthing the contemporary implications and timeless wisdom therein. This sharply intelligent and deeply felt work. Mendelsohn is an American lecturer in the classics and his eighty-one year old father asked to sit in on his series of classes on Odyssey – which at it’s heart has a son, Telemachus (who in the first part of the Odyssey sets off to learn about his father who has been away at the Trojan wars for twenty years and feared dead), his father who is, of course, Odysseus, and Odysseus’ father, Laertes, who is still /5(82). · An Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn William Collins. pp. $ AU. Published September, ISBN James Joyce claimed that he used the Odyssey as the mythical framework for his modern epic Ulysses because the poem’s wandering hero was the most complete man in all literature.
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic (Hardcover) Published September 12th by Knopf Publishing Group. Hardcover, pages. Author (s): Daniel Mendelsohn. ISBN: (ISBN ) Edition language: English. Author Daniel Mendelsohn, left, and his father, Jay, on the Odysseus-inspired cruise. A few years ago, author, critic, and translator Daniel Mendelsohn was teaching the epic Greek poem The Odyssey. An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn is published by William Collins. To order a copy for £ (RRP £) go to www.doorway.ru or call Free UK p.
Mendelsohn sets an account of the Homeric Odyssey alongside a nuanced portrait of his own complicated familial and quasi-familial relationships, including a vivid picture of Mendelsohn’s anger, anxieties and embarrassments about his father. The book shows us how his desire to become a classicist was shaped in part by the desire to please his father, and how he shares some of his father’s need to be always right. The ancient classic proves an inspiring model for Daniel Mendelsohn’s gentle memoir about reconnecting with his father. ‘Its themes resonate across his and his father’s lives’: Daniel. A deeply moving tale of a father and son’s transformative journey in reading–and reliving–Homer’s epic masterpiece. When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual.
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