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In this compelling narrative, a writer embarks on a quest to uncover the truth behind his family's tragic past during World War II, blending memoir, reportage, mystery, and scholarly investigation. The journey begins with the haunting memory of six relatives who vanished during the Holocaust, a topic that captivated him since childhood. Years later, the discovery of desperate letters from 1939 written by his grandfather prompts him to seek out the remaining witnesses to his family's fate. This search spans a dozen countries across four continents, revealing the painful discrepancies between lived histories and the stories we tell. Ultimately, it leads him back to the small Ukrainian town where his family's saga began, where answers to a long-standing mystery await. By weaving together past and present, childhood memories of a lost generation of immigrant Jews, and reflections on biblical texts and Jewish history, the narrative transforms a personal family story into a profound meditation on memory and the passage of time. Deeply personal and suspenseful, this literary work illuminates what is lost and found in our attempts to grasp the past. The author’s exploration is described as a powerful and moving investigation, reminiscent of Proust and Sebald, and is praised for its human depth, where every witness has a face and a story.

Of hij nu schrijft over de Ilias en de Odyssee of een vergelijking maakt tussen het werk van Karl Ove Knausgård en de televisieserie Suits , Daniel Mendelsohns essays over literatuur, film en televisie verrassen stuk voor stuk. In Pijn en genot laat Mendelsohn zien hoe de Grieken en Romeinen anno nu nog steeds als voorbeelden gelden. Ook schrijft hij over Hanya Yanagihara en over de vrouwen in Game of Thrones , en hij analyseert recente films over kunstmatige intelligentie - een onderwerp, zo brengt hij ons in herinnering, dat in de achtste eeuw voor Christus al Homerus' interesse wekte. Uit deze essaybundel, speciaal samengesteld voor zijn Nederlandse lezers, blijken Daniel Mendelsohns eruditie, zijn bereik als denker en de diepte van zijn analyses. Zijn essays zijn verplicht leesmateriaal voor eenieder die net als hij onze cultuur wil ontleden.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 From the award-winning, best- selling writer: a deeply moving tale of a father and son's transformative journey in reading - and reliving - Homer's epic masterpiece.

New volume in the Frick Diptych series pairs an essay by Frick curator Aimee Ng with a contribution by bestselling author Daniel Mendelsohn.

Hailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Euripides, and Sappho, The Elusive Embrace is a profound exploration of the mysteries of identity. It is also a meditation in which the author uses his own divided life to investigate the "rich conflictedness of things," the double lives all of us lead.Daniel Mendelsohn recalls the deceptively quiet suburb where he grew up, torn between his mathematician father's pursuit of scientific truth and the exquisite lies spun by his Orthodox Jewish grandfather; the streets of manhattan's newest "gay ghetto," where "desire for love" competes with "love of desire;" and the quiet moonlit house where a close friend's small son teaches him the meaning of fatherhood. And, finally, in a neglected Jewish cemetery, the author uncovers a family secret that reveals the universal need for storytelling, for inventing myths of the self. The book that Hilton Als calls "equal to Whitman's 'Song of Myself,'" The Elusive Embrace marks a dazzling literary debut.

Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, this genre-defying work by best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn delves into the connections between the randomness of life and the art of storytelling. Blending memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, it intertwines the narratives of three exiled writers who turned to classical texts to craft their own masterpieces that reflect on narrative itself. Erich Auerbach, a Jewish philologist who fled Hitler's Germany, wrote his influential study of Western literature, Mimesis, in Istanbul. Francois Fenelon, a seventeenth-century French archbishop, penned a clever sequel to the Odyssey, The Adventures of Telemachus, which served as a veiled critique of the Sun King and became a bestseller for a century, leading to his exile. W. G. Sebald, a German novelist self-exiled in England, created meandering narratives that explore themes of displacement and nostalgia. Amid these tales of exile and artistic struggle, Mendelsohn recounts his own challenges in writing two books—a Holocaust family saga and a memoir about reading the Odyssey with his elderly father—both haunted by themes of oppression and wandering. As the narrative unfolds, a climactic revelation about the interconnected lives of these three figures prompts a reevaluation of the ties between narrative, history, art, and life.

Dionysus, god of wine and ecstasy, has come to Thebes, and the women are streaming out of the city to worship him on the mountain, drinking and dancing in wild frenzy. The king, Pentheus, denouces this so-called 'god' as a charlatan. But no mortal can deny a god and no man can ever stand against Dionysus. This stunning translation, by the award-winning poet Robin Robertson, reinvigorated Euripides' devastating take of a god's revenge for contemporary readers, bringing the ancient verse to fervid, brutal life.

"Le regard de Proust est celui d'un voyeur, il observe pour nourrir sa réflexion et édifier ainsi sa "démonstration". Je suis resté plus en retrait encore, caché dans l'ombre du narrateur et de Swann, en espérant que cette discrétion me permette d'approcher de plus près, au-delà du décor et des costumes, leur silence, leur émotion. Bien entendu il aurait été absurde de prétendre "enrichir" le texte de mes dessins ! J'espère cependant qu'ils pourront prolonger la rêverie du lecteur. " Yann Nascimbene.