Presents The Story Of A Father And Son's Transformative Shared Journey In Reading In The Wake Of The Father's Late-in-life Enrollment In His Son's Undergraduate Seminar, Where The Two Engaged In Debates Over How To Interpret Homer's Classic Masterpiece. When Eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn Decides To Enroll In The Undergraduate Seminar On The Odyssey That His Son Daniel Teaches At Bard College, The Two Find Themselves On An Adventure As Profoundly Emotional As It Is Intellectual. For Jay, A Retired Research Scientist Who Sees The World Through A Mathematician's Unforgiving Eyes, This Return To The Classroom Is His 'one Last Chance' To Learn The Great Literature He'd Neglected In His Youth--and, Even More, A Final Opportunity To More Fully Understand His Son. But Through The Sometimes Uncomfortable Months That Follow, As The Two Men Explore Homer's Great Work Together--first In The Classroom, Where Jay Persistently Challenges His Son's Interpretations, And Then During A Surprise-filled Mediterranean Journey Retracing Odysseus' Legendary Voyages-it Becomes Clear That Daniel Has Much To Learn, Too: For Jay's Responses To Both The Text And The Travels Gradually Uncover Long-buried Secrets That Allow The Son To Understand His Difficult Father At Last. As This Intricately Woven Memoir Builds To Its Wrenching Climax, Mendelsohn's Narrative Comes To Echo The Odyssey Itself, With Its Timeless Themes Of Deception And Recognition, Marriage And Children, The Pleasures Of Travel And The Meaning Of Home. Rich With Literary And Emotional Insight, An Odyssey Is A Renowned Author-scholar's Most Revelatory Entwining Yet Of Personal Narrative And Literary Exploration.--jacket. Proem (invocation): 1964-2011 -- Telemachy (education): January-february 2011 -- Apologoi (adventures): March-june -- Nostos (homecoming): April -- Anagnorisis (recognition): May -- Sêma (the Sign): April 6, 2012. Daniel Mendelsohn.
Categories:
- Literature & Fiction
- History & Criticism
- Movements & Periods
- Ancient & Classical
- Movements & Periods
- History & Criticism
Publisher : Knopf
Author : Mendelsohn, Daniel
Language : English
Edition : 1
Published :2017-09-12
Number Of Pages : 320
Binding : Hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0385350597
ISBN-13 : 9780385350594
Item weight : 1.35 lb
Dimensions : 1.4 in x 6.6 in x 9.5 in
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