Daniel Mendelsohn Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Daniel Mendelsohn

@VarlanOlivier En anglais il y a tout premièrement la magnifique et bouleversante trilogie « Regeneration » de Pat Barker, inoubliable, une grande classique. Et je nommerais davantage « A Long, Long Way, » de Sebastian Barry, merveilleux romancier irlandais

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Williams finest novel, in terms of control and execution, is “Augustus,” with the powerful “Butcher’s Crossing, a near-masterpiece that falters at the end, a close second. “Stoner” crippled by the unbelievable character of the wife, a narrative convenience that never persuades. https://t.co/EQIPGYJGxG

Daniel Mendelsohn

For John Williams’ centenary: my @nyrb essay on his novels—and particularly “Augustus,” by far his best work (with “Butcher’s Crossing” a close second): https://t.co/wDkDLgZQUL https://t.co/RduWC7HQgd

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“But the myth of the Fall of #Troy had already been feminized—by #Euripides”: In this week’s @NewYorker, I consider Pat Barker’s “The Women of #Troy” & the tricky business of adapting #Classics myth for contemporary audiences. #ClassicsTwitter https://t.co/qp08ypCp9E

Daniel Mendelsohn

“Sentimental remembering is the best method for completely forgetting one’s own destiny. It presupposes that the present itself is instantly converted into a ‘sentimental’ past.” Hannah #Arendt, “Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman” #MemoristsBeware!

Daniel Mendelsohn

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered.” —George Orwell, “1984” (h/t Baer Pettit)

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An excerpt from my new book THREE RINGS: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate,” in ⁦@NYRDaily⁩: ⁦@nybooks⁩ ⁦@uvapress⁩ Finding a Path Through the Odyssey | by Daniel Mendelsohn | The New York Review of Books https://t.co/YSN0JAcjTO

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@mayavision @CCavafy @nybooks As I said, the title is a quotation from Plutarch’s Life of Antony (chapter 75). I don’t think Cavafy was thinking of Shakespeare, tbh.

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@JSchwartz10a It wasn’t that I hated it, it was more that I’d gone thinking I was going in there to review a production of the Oresteia (by Aeschylus) and it was clearly just a loosely modernized adaptation.

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Daniel Mendelsohn

« Souvent des terribles combats se livraient ainsi entre sa terreur d’un accès et la violence de sa gourmandise; et, presque toujours, la gourmandise était la plus forte. » Zola, « La Joie de Vivre » (1883/4)