Waiting For The Barbarians

Waiting For The Barbarians by Daniel Mendelsohn


ISBN
9781590176078
Published
Released
01 / 08 / 2012
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
440
Dimensions
143 x 216 x 30mm

In Waiting for the Barbarians, Daniel Mendelsohnandmdash;hailed by The Economist as one of the finest critics writing in the English language todayandmdash;brings together thirty-four of his recent critical essays.and#160; In this collection, Mendelsohn moves from penetrating considerations of the ways in which the classics continue to make themselves felt in contemporary life and letters (Anne Carson's Sappho, Euripides in Central Park and on Broadway, the use of Plato's dialogues in a gay rights trial in Colorado) to trenchant takes on pop "spectaclesandrdquo; such as Avatar, Spider-Man, and Mad Men, a series whose success, Mendelsohn argued, has less to do with any formal excellence than with a profoundly sentimental appeal.and#160; Also gathered here are essays devoted to the art of fiction, from blockbusters such as Jonathan Littell's The Kindly Ones to forgotten gems like the novels of Theodor Fontane.and#160; In another section, "Private Lives," prefaced by his lengthy New Yorker essay on phony memoirs, Mendelsohn considers the lives and work of authors as disparate as Noel Coward and Susan Sontag, and ends with a reminiscence of his own: about the Auntie Mameandndash;like Frenchwoman with whom he lived as an undergraduate, when he first began reading the classics.
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