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Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-
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Literature -- Appreciation.
Popular culture -- 21st century.
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Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-
Canon (Literature)
Literature -- Appreciation.
Popular culture -- 21st century.
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Waiting
for the
Barbarians
:
essays
on the
classics
and
pop
culture
/ Daniel Mendelsohn.
by
Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-
New York Review Books, 2012.
Call #:
814.6 M537w
Subjects
Canon (Literature)
Literature -- Appreciation.
Popular
culture
-- 21st century.
Series
New York Review book.
ISBN:
9781590177136 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
Essays
on the
classics
and
pop
culture
Description:
xiv, 423 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes:
"New York Review Books."
Summary:
"Over the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn’s reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review have earned him a reputation as “one of the greatest critics of our time” (Poets & Writers). In
Waiting
for the
Barbarians
, he brings together twenty-four of his recent essays—each one glinting with “verve and sparkle,” “acumen and passion”—on a wide range of subjects, from Avatar to the poems of Arthur Rimbaud, from our inexhaustible fascination with the Titanic to Susan Sontag’s Journals. Trained as a classicist, author of two internationally best-selling memoirs, Mendelsohn moves easily from penetrating considerations of the ways in which the
classics
continue to make themselves felt in contemporary life and letters (Greek myth in the Spider-Man musical, Anne Carson’s translations of Sappho) to trenchant takes on
pop
spectacles—none more explosively controversial than his dissection of Mad Men. Also gathered here are
essays
devoted to the art of fiction, from Jonathan Littell’s Holocaust blockbuster The Kindly Ones to forgotten gems like the novels of Theodor Fontane. In a final section, “Private Lives,” prefaced by Mendelsohn’s New Yorker essay on fake memoirs, he considers the lives and work of writers as disparate as Leo Lerman, Noël Coward, and Jonathan Franzen.
Waiting
for the
Barbarians
once again demonstrates that Mendelsohn’s “sweep as a cultural critic is as impressive as his depth."--From publisher.
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