ISBN |
9780008518035 (paperback) |
Dewey |
809.9335 |
Author |
Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960- author. |
Title |
Three rings : a tale of exile, narrative, and fate / Daniel Mendelsohn. |
Published |
London : William Collins, 2022. |
Physical description |
116 pages ; 20 cm. |
Summary |
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. Erich Auerbach, the Jewish philologist who fled Hitler's Germany and wrote his classic study of Western literature, Mimesis, in Istanbul. Francois Fenelon, 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 German novelist W. G. Sebald, self-exiled to England, whose distinctively meandering narratives explore Odyssean themes of displacement, nostalgia, and separation from home. |
Subject |
Auerbach, Erich, -- 1892-1957 -- Criticism and interpretation |
Fénelon, François de Salignac de La Mothe-, -- 1651-1715 -- Criticism and interpretation |
Sebald, W. G.(Winfried Georg),1944-2001 -- Criticism and interpretation |
Homer. -- Odyssey |
Homer -- Influence |
Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, -- 1960- |
Literature, Modern -- Classical influences |
European literature -- Classical influences |
Critics -- United States |