Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate Mendelsohn Daniel
Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate Mendelsohn Daniel In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the…
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Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate Mendelsohn Daniel
In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell.Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own--works that pondered the nature of narrative itself. Fran ois F nelon, the seventeenth-century French archbishop whose ingenious sequel to the Odyssey, The Adventures of Telemachus--a veiled critique of the Sun King and the best-selling book in Europe for one hundred years--resulted in his banishment... and the Erich Auerbach, the Jewish philologist who fled Hitler's Germany and wrote his classic study of Western literature, Mimesis, in Istanbul...
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