· 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 Author: William Skidelsky. 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 /5(). · A Father and Son Sail Through Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ Together. Credit Daniel Mendelsohn is a classics scholar, a translator, a memoirist and a quick-witted literary and television critic. The Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins.
An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epicby Daniel Mendelsohn ()Knopf () pp. T he premise for Daniel Mendelsohn's new book about the great epic poem had me hooked from the start. In January , Mendelsohn started teaching a course at Bard College dedicated solely to the Odyssey. A New York Times/PBS NewsHour Book Club Pick From award-winning memoirist and critic, and bestselling author of The Lost: 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 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.
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. 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 alive and therefore Odysseus is still a son too. 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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