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John Williams: Collected Novels (LOA #349) - Butcher's Crossing / Stoner / Augustus (Hardcover): John Williams John Williams: Collected Novels (LOA #349) - Butcher's Crossing / Stoner / Augustus (Hardcover)
John Williams; Edited by Daniel Mendelsohn
R1,066 R794 Discovery Miles 7 940 Save R272 (26%) In Stock
Bacchae (Paperback): Euripides, Robin Robertson, Daniel Mendelsohn Bacchae (Paperback)
Euripides, Robin Robertson, Daniel Mendelsohn
R423 R310 Discovery Miles 3 100 Save R113 (27%) Ships in 15 - 20 working days
Structure (Hardcover): Isabelle Boccon-Gibod, Daniel Mendelsohn Structure (Hardcover)
Isabelle Boccon-Gibod, Daniel Mendelsohn
R1,339 Discovery Miles 13 390 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

From 1839 when it was invented, photography has served to create portraits of individuals, and soon thereafter portraits of families, later placed in photo albums. Photography, collected and archived, entered the intimate sphere, enabling people to arrange the fragmented images of their lives as they saw fit. Following its forerunners (miniature portraits, silhouettes, physionotraces), the photographic portrait also served the new expectations of the emerging urban bourgeoisie and its need for social representation. Studios opened up in cities everywhere to meet the fast growing demand. In addition, the new medium distinguishted itself with its esthetic superiority. "Even as it emerged, although the technique was still very primitive, photography enjoyed an exceptional quality of artistic finish (Gisèle Freund)". What can photography show us to day of the visible and invisible aspects of family sociology? "How do the roles we expect them to play betray the emotional realities and complexities of lived life?" wonders Daniel Mendelsohn, in his introduction entitled "Unknown Faces/ Redeeming Structures". By creating this corpus of fixed black and white images, each composed in a large 5'x7' frame, the photographer has produced a work of anthropological scope, reaching beyond representation by placing the subject at palpable distance, thereby objectifying it. What should we think of these seemingly impassive faces and their hypnotic gazes, what should we think of these postures, seated or standing? What goes on within these families and outside the frame? The use of a rigid protocol similar in all sessions makes every family portraits intriguing, and encourages our reflection. Inspired by the work of Bernd and Hilla Becher, whose esthetics of objectivity tended towards minimalism, Isabelle Boccon-Gibod, a self-made artist, with an interest for technique, has played with a frontality quite similar to that of the Bechers, resting on the idea that our bodies, when joined together, form a sort of architecture. The idea, also, that a face, deprived of its smile, offers a neutrality of expression worth considering: masks fall and reveal a nakedness (naked truth?) to be admired and deciphered beyond the appearances of social games. She was guided, yet not limited, by this principle: the image of a family seen as a façade-like structure, in which faces are the windows.

Three Rings - A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate (Paperback): Daniel Mendelsohn Three Rings - A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate (Paperback)
Daniel Mendelsohn
R202 Discovery Miles 2 020 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year. 'Astounding' Sebastian Barry 'A masterpiece' Ayad Akhtar 'This little book is ruminative, humane, and gorgeously precise' Jonathan Lethem In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own-works that pondered the nature of narrative itself. Erich Auerbach, the Jewish philologist who fled Hitler's Germany and wrote his classic study of Western literature, Mimesis, in Istanbul. Francois Fenelon, the seventeenth-century French archbishop whose ingenious sequel to the Odyssey,The Adventures of Telemachus - a veiled critique of the Sun King and the best-selling book in Europe for one hundred years - resulted in his banishment. And the German novelist W. G. Sebald, self-exiled to England, whose distinctively meandering narratives explore Odyssean themes of displacement, nostalgia, and separation from home. Intertwined with these tales of exile and artistic crisis is an account of Mendelsohn's struggles to write two of his own books-a family saga of the Holocaust and a memoir about reading the Odyssey with his elderly father-that are haunted by tales of oppression and wandering. As Three Rings moves to its startling conclusion, a climactic revelation about the way in which the lives of its three heroes were linked across borders, languages, and centuries forces the reader to reconsider the relationship between narrative and history, art and life.

An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017 (Paperback): Daniel Mendelsohn An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic - Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2017 (Paperback)
Daniel Mendelsohn
R384 R278 Discovery Miles 2 780 Save R106 (28%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017 SHORTLISTED FOR THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZE 2017 WINNER OF THE PRIX MEDITERRANEE 2018 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. When eighty-one-year-old retired scientist Jay unexpectedly enrols in his estranged classicist son Daniel's course on the Odyssey, the journey of a lifetime commences. Professor and student glean life lessons from the page over a semester and, that summer, son and father take to the sea to follow Odysseus's epic trail. Reading Homer becomes their chance to understand each other before it's too late. Theirs is a moving and erudite story of filial love and the importance of the classics. Rich with literary and emotional insight and weaving themes of deception and recognition, marriage and children, the pleasures of travel and the meaning of home, this is memoir writing at its finest.

Bronzino's Lodovico Capponi (Hardcover): Daniel Mendelsohn, Aimee Ng Bronzino's Lodovico Capponi (Hardcover)
Daniel Mendelsohn, Aimee Ng
R488 Discovery Miles 4 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Painted by Agnolo Bronzino (Agnolo di Cosimo) (Italian, 1503–1572) ca. 1550–55, the young aristocrat is Lodovico Capponi (b. 1533), a page at the Medici court. As was his custom, he wears black and white, his family's armorial colors. His right index finger partially conceals the cameo he holds, revealing only the inscription sorte (fate or fortune) — an ingenious allusion to the obscurity of fate. In the mid 1550s Lodovico fell in love with a girl whom Duke Cosimo had intended for one of his cousins. After nearly three years of opposition, Cosimo suddenly relented, but he commanded that their wedding be celebrated within twenty-four hours.

Reminiscences of a Student's Life: Jane Ellen Harrison Reminiscences of a Student's Life
Jane Ellen Harrison; Foreword by Daniel Mendelsohn
R339 R312 Discovery Miles 3 120 Save R27 (8%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days
The Lost - The Search for Six of Six Million (Paperback): Daniel Mendelsohn The Lost - The Search for Six of Six Million (Paperback)
Daniel Mendelsohn
R562 R481 Discovery Miles 4 810 Save R81 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic--part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work--that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history.

The Lost - A Search for Six of Six Million (Paperback): Daniel Mendelsohn The Lost - A Search for Six of Six Million (Paperback)
Daniel Mendelsohn
R592 R469 Discovery Miles 4 690 Save R123 (21%) Ships in 15 - 20 working days
How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken - Essays (Paperback): Daniel Mendelsohn How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken - Essays (Paperback)
Daniel Mendelsohn
R492 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R105 (21%) Ships in 15 - 20 working days

Whether on Broadway or at the movies, considering a new novel or revisiting a classic work of literature, Daniel Mendelsohn's judgments over the past fifteen years have provoked and dazzled with their deep erudition, disarming emotionality, and tart wit. Now, in "How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken", we see all at once the overwhelming depth and intelligence infused in Mendelsohn's writings, as he brings his distinctive combination of scholarly rigor and conversational ease to bear across eras, cultures, and genres, from Roman games to video games. His striking interpretations of our most important films - from the work of Pedro Almodovar to "Brokeback Mountain", "United 93" and "World Trade Center", "300", "Troy", and "The Hours" - have sparked debate and changed the way we watch movies. Just as stunning and influential are his dispatches on theater and literature, from "The Producers" to Jeffrey Eugenides' "Middlesex", from Euripides' "Medea" to "The letters of Truman Capote". "How Beautiful It Is" makes it clear that no other contemporary thinker is as engaged with as many aspects of our culture and its influences as Mendelsohn is.

The Bad Boy of Athens - Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones (Paperback): Daniel Mendelsohn The Bad Boy of Athens - Classics from the Greeks to Game of Thrones (Paperback)
Daniel Mendelsohn 1
R235 Discovery Miles 2 350 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have ever been told.' Sebastian Barry Over the past three decades, Daniel Mendelsohn's essays and reviews have earned him a reputation as 'our most irresistible literary critic' (New York Times). This striking new collection exemplifies the way in which Mendelsohn - a classicist by training - uses the classics as a lens to think about urgent contemporary debates. There is much to surprise here. Mendelsohn invokes the automatons featured in Homer's epics to help explain the AI films Ex Machina and Her, and perceives how Ted Hughes sought redemption by translating a play of Euripides (the 'bad boy of Athens') about a wayward husband whose wife returns from the dead. There are essays on Sappho's sexuality and the feminism of Game of Thrones; on how Virgil's Aeneid prefigures post-World War II history and why we are still obsessed with the Titanic; on Patrick Leigh Fermor's final journey, Karl Ove Knausgaard's autofiction and the plays of Tom Stoppard, Tennessee Williams, and Noel Coward. The collection ends with a poignant account of the author's boyhood correspondence with the historical novelist Mary Renault, which inspired his ambition to become a writer. In The Bad Boy of Athens, Mendelsohn provokes and dazzles with erudition, emotion and tart wit while his essays dance across eras, cultures and genres. This is a provocative collection which sees today's master of popular criticism using the ancient past to reach into the very heart of modern culture.

The Complete Poems of C.P. Cavafy (Paperback): Daniel Mendelsohn The Complete Poems of C.P. Cavafy (Paperback)
Daniel Mendelsohn
R810 R613 Discovery Miles 6 130 Save R197 (24%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The complete Cavafy poems - including the unfinished works - in a stunning new translation. From the acclaimed author of 'The Lost', a translation that scales new heights in modern poetic rendering. With a masterful eye for irony and an ear for the music of Cavafy's form, Daniel Mendelsohn's translation brings to English the poet who won acclaim from generations of writers, E.M. Forster and T.S. Eliot among them. Spanning the fall of Homeric heroes to the rise of the modern world, Cavafy's poetry collapses the spectra of time, geography and age into intimately personal elegies. Works such as "Waiting for the Barbarians" and "Ithica", famed for their revival of the ancient worlds, continue to address the modern reader in terms of timeless relevance. Here they are accompanied by Cavafy's unfinished poems, translated into English for the first time. From a highly respected classicist and social essayist, Daniel Mendelsohn's edition is uniquely placed to become the fresh, definitive edition of Cavafy in English.

The Lost - A Search for Six of Six Million (Paperback): Daniel Mendelsohn The Lost - A Search for Six of Six Million (Paperback)
Daniel Mendelsohn 2
R403 Discovery Miles 4 030 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A writer's search for his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original and riveting epic, brilliantly exploring the nature of time and memory. 'The Lost' begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust - an unmentionable subject that gripped his imagination from earliest childhood. Decades later, spurred by the discovery of a cache of desperate letters written to his grandfather in 1939, Daniel Mendelsohn sets out to find the remaining eyewitnesses to his relative's fates. The quest takes him to a dozen countries and forces him to confront the wrenching discrepancies between the histories we live and the stories we tell. Finally, he goes back to the small Ukrainian town where his family's story began, and where the solution to a decades-old mystery awaits him. Deftly moving between past and present, interweaving a world-wandering odyssey with memories of a vanished generation, 'The Lost' transforms the story of one family into a profound and morally searching study of our fragile hold on the past. Deeply personal, grippingly suspenseful and beautifully written, this literary tour de force illuminates all that is lost, and found, in the passage of time.

The King Must Die; The Bull from the Sea - Introduction by Daniel Mendelsohn (Hardcover): Mary Renault The King Must Die; The Bull from the Sea - Introduction by Daniel Mendelsohn (Hardcover)
Mary Renault; Introduction by Daniel Mendelsohn
R964 R734 Discovery Miles 7 340 Save R230 (24%) Ships in 15 - 20 working days
Three Rings - A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate (Hardcover): Daniel Mendelsohn Three Rings - A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate (Hardcover)
Daniel Mendelsohn
R591 R492 Discovery Miles 4 920 Save R99 (17%) Ships in 15 - 20 working days

Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year. In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own-works that pondered the nature of narrative itself. Erich Auerbach, the Jewish philologist who fled Hitler's Germany and wrote his classic study of Western literature, Mimesis, in Istanbul... Francois Fenelon, the seventeenth-century French archbishop whose ingenious sequel to the Odyssey,The Adventures of Telemachus-a veiled critique of the Sun King and the best-selling book in Europe for one hundred years-resulted in his banishment... and the German novelist W. G. Sebald, self-exiled to England, whose distinctively meandering narratives explore Odyssean themes of displacement, nostalgia, and separation from home. Intertwined with these tales of exile and artistic crisis is an account of Mendelsohn's struggles to write two of his own books-a family saga of the Holocaust and a memoir about reading the Odyssey with his elderly father-that are haunted by tales of oppression and wandering. As Three Rings moves to its startling conclusion, a climactic revelation about the way in which the lives of its three heroes were linked across borders, languages, and centuries forces the reader to reconsider the relationship between narrative and history, art and life.

Augustus (Paperback): John Williams Augustus (Paperback)
John Williams; Introduction by Daniel Mendelsohn 1
R528 R408 Discovery Miles 4 080 Save R120 (23%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Winner of the 1973 National Book Award
In "Augustus, " the third of his great novels, John Williams took on an entirely new challenge, a historical novel set in classical Rome, exploring the life of the founder of the Roman Empire, whose greatness was matched by his brutality. To tell the story, Williams also turned to a genre, the epistolary novel, that was new to him, transforming and transcending it just as he did the western in "Butcher's Crossing" and the campus novel in "Stoner." "Augustus" is the final triumph of a writer who has come to be recognized around the world as an American master.
" In "Augustus," ] John Williams re-creates the Roman Empire from the death of Julius Caesar to the last days of Augustus, the machinations of the court, the Senate, and the people, from the sickly boy to the sickly man who almost dies during expedi- tions to what would seem to be the ruthless ruler . . . . Read it in conjunction with Robert Graves's more flamboyant "I, Claudius" and "Claudius the God," Hermann Broch's "The Death of Virgil," and Marguerite Yourcenar's "Memoirs of Hadrian."" --Harold Augenbraum, Executive Director of the National Book Foundation

Three Rings - A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate (Paperback): Daniel Mendelsohn Three Rings - A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate (Paperback)
Daniel Mendelsohn
R409 R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Save R85 (21%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ecstasy and Terror - From the Greeks to Game of Thrones (Paperback): Daniel Mendelsohn Ecstasy and Terror - From the Greeks to Game of Thrones (Paperback)
Daniel Mendelsohn
R550 R431 Discovery Miles 4 310 Save R119 (22%) Ships in 15 - 20 working days
An Odyssey - A Father, A Son, and an Epic (Paperback): Daniel Mendelsohn An Odyssey - A Father, A Son, and an Epic (Paperback)
Daniel Mendelsohn
R473 R356 Discovery Miles 3 560 Save R117 (25%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy - Including the First English Translation of the Unfinished Poems (Paperback): C.P. Cavafy Complete Poems of C. P. Cavafy - Including the First English Translation of the Unfinished Poems (Paperback)
C.P. Cavafy; Translated by Daniel Mendelsohn
R1,000 R769 Discovery Miles 7 690 Save R231 (23%) Ships in 15 - 20 working days

An extraordinary literary event: Daniel Mendelsohn's acclaimed two-volume translation of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy--including the first English translation of the poet's final Unfinished Poems--now published in one handsome edition and featuring the fullest literary commentaries available in English, by the renowned critic, scholar, and international best-selling author of "The Lost."
No modern poet so vividly brought to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the early-twentieth-century taboos surrounding homoerotic desire; no poet before or since has so gracefully melded elegy and irony as the Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933). Whether advising Odysseus on his return to Ithaca or confronting the poet with the ghosts of his youth, these verses brilliantly make the historical personal--and vice versa. To his profound exploration of longing and loneliness, fate and loss, memory and identity, Cavafy brings the historian's assessing eye along with the poet's compassionate heart.
After more than a decade of work and study, Mendelsohn--a classicist who alone among Cavafy's translators shares the poet's deep intimacy with the ancient world--gives readers full access to the genius of Cavafy's verse: the sensuous rhymes, rich assonances, and strong rhythms of the original Greek that have eluded previous translators. Complete with the Unfinished Poems that Cavafy left in drafts when he died--a remarkable, hitherto unknown discovery that remained in the Cavafy Archive in Athens for decades--and with an in-depth introduction and a helpful commentary that situates each work in a rich historical, literary, and biographical context, this revelatory translation is a cause for celebration: the definitive presentation of Cavafy in English.

Glory Of The Empire - A Novel, A History (Paperback, Main): Barbara Bray, Daniel Mendelsohn, Jeand Ormesson Glory Of The Empire - A Novel, A History (Paperback, Main)
Barbara Bray, Daniel Mendelsohn, Jeand Ormesson
R520 R408 Discovery Miles 4 080 Save R112 (22%) Ships in 15 - 20 working days
A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error (Paperback): Sybille Bedford A Favourite of the Gods and A Compass Error (Paperback)
Sybille Bedford; Preface by Daniel Mendelsohn
R552 R434 Discovery Miles 4 340 Save R118 (21%) Ships in 15 - 20 working days
Blindness (Paperback): Henry Green Blindness (Paperback)
Henry Green; Introduction by Daniel Mendelsohn
R379 R289 Discovery Miles 2 890 Save R90 (24%) Ships in 15 - 20 working days
Cavafy: Poems - Edited and Translated with notes by Daniel Mendelsohn (Hardcover): C.P. Cavafy Cavafy: Poems - Edited and Translated with notes by Daniel Mendelsohn (Hardcover)
C.P. Cavafy; Edited by Daniel Mendelsohn; Translated by Daniel Mendelsohn
R520 R390 Discovery Miles 3 900 Save R130 (25%) Ships in 15 - 20 working days

The Alexandrian Greek poet Constantine Cavafy (1863-1933) is a towering figure of twentieth-century literature. No modern poet brought so vividly to life the history and culture of Mediterranean antiquity; no writer dared break, with such taut energy, the taboos of his time surrounding homoerotic desire.
In this edition, award-winning translator and editor Daniel Mendelsohn has made a selection of the poet's best-loved works, including such favorites as "Waiting for the Barbarians," "Ithaca," and "The God Abandons Antony." Accompanied by Mendelsohn's explanatory notes, the poems collected here cover the vast sweep of Hellenic civilization, from the Trojan War through Cavafy's own lifetime. Whether advising Odysseus as he returns home to Ithaca or portraying a doomed Marc Antony on the eve of his death, Cavafy's poems make the historic profoundly and movingly personal.

The Lost - A Search for Six of Six Million (Large print, Paperback, large type edition): Daniel Mendelsohn The Lost - A Search for Six of Six Million (Large print, Paperback, large type edition)
Daniel Mendelsohn
R682 Discovery Miles 6 820 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this rich and riveting narrative, a writer's search for the truth behind his family's tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic&#8212part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and part scholarly detective work&#8212that brilliantly explores the nature of time and memory, family and history.The Lost begins as the story of a boy who grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust&#8212an unmentionable subject that gripped his imagination from earliest childhood. Decades later, spurred by the discovery of a cache of desperate letters written to his grandfather in 1939 and tantalized by fragmentary tales of a terrible betrayal, Daniel Mendelsohn sets out to find the remaining eyewitnesses to his relatives' fates. That quest eventually takes him to a dozen countries on four continents, and forces him to confront the wrenching discrepancies between the histories we live and the stories we tell. And it leads him, finally, back to the small Ukrainian town where his family's story began, and where the solution to a decades-old mystery awaits him. Deftly moving between past and present, interweaving a world-wandering odyssey with childhood memories of a now-lost generation of immigrant Jews and provocative ruminations on biblical texts and Jewish history, The Lost transforms the story of one family into a profound, morally searching meditation on our fragile hold on the past. Deeply personal, grippingly suspenseful, and beautifully written, this literary tour de force illuminates all that is lost, and found, in the passage of time.

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