Description: Further DetailsTitle: Three RingsCondition: NewSubtitle: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and FateAuthor: Daniel MendelsohnFormat: HardbackEAN: 9780813944661ISBN: 9780813944661Publisher: University of Virginia PressGenre: HistoryTopic: Literary Criticism, Biography, Language & ReferenceRelease Date: 09/30/2020Description: Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, France's best foreign book of the year.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. Erich Auerbach, the Jewish philologist who fled Hitler’s Germany and wrote his classic study of Western literature, Mimesis, in Istanbul... François Fénelon, 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.Intertwined with these tales of exile and artistic crisis is an account of Mendelsohn’s struggles to write two of his own books—a family saga of the Holocaust and a memoir about reading the Odyssey with his elderly father—that are haunted by tales of oppression and wandering. As Three Rings moves to its startling conclusion, a climactic revelation about the way in which the lives of its three heroes were linked across borders, languages, and centuries forces the reader to reconsider the relationship between narrative and history, art and life.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 203mmItem Length: 127mmItem Weight: 253gBook Series: Page-Barbour LecturesRelease Year: 2020 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Three Rings
Title: Three Rings
Subtitle: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate
EAN: 9780813944661
ISBN: 9780813944661
Genre: History
Topic: Language & Reference
Release Date: 09/30/2020
Release Year: 2020
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Three Rings : a Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Subject: Personal Memoirs, Religious, Literary, Ancient & Classical, Modern / General
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2020
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography
Author: Daniel Mendelsohn
Item Length: 8.1 in
Item Width: 5.1 in
Series: Page-Barbour Lectures
Format: Hardcover
