Podcast appearances and mentions of Daniel Mendelsohn

America's most celebrated living classicist, Daniel Mendelsohn's new translation of Homer's Odyssey has been universally acclaimed as the greatest and most authentic ever to appear in English; capturing both the music and archaic grandeur of Homer while bringing to vivid life the gripping adventure, profound human insight, and powerful themes that ensure this epic poem will continue to be celebrated and loved as one of the greatest works of culture for as long as there are humans alive to hear it. As Christopher Nolan's new film guarantees a surge of new excitement to this timeless tale of monsters and men, of grief and homecoming, Daniel offers his personal reflections on the meaning of the poem both now and across the ages, and explore the challenges and particularities of translating the Greek of Homer the into modern English. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Christopher Nolan’s $250 million film The Odyssey was always going to inspire – and enrage – fans. That’s what you get when you take on one of the oldest surviving stories in history and refashion the hero at its centre. The New York Review of Books editor-at-large Daniel Mendelsohn is today's guest. The classics scholar discusses what Nolan is trying to tell us with his version and why it's provoked people such as Elon Musk and Donald Trump Jr.Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Christopher Nolan’s $250 million film The Odyssey was always going to inspire – and enrage – fans. That’s what you get when you take on one of the oldest surviving stories in history and refashion the hero at its centre. The New York Review of Books editor-at-large Daniel Mendelsohn is today's guest. The classics scholar discusses what Nolan is trying to tell us with his version and why it's provoked people such as Elon Musk and Donald Trump Jr.Subscribe to The Age & SMH: https://subscribe.smh.com.au/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today on the show, after Ukraine said it struck more than 100 Russian vessels over nine days in the sea near Russian-held Crimea, Fareed speaks with Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar about how this new phase of the conflict could finally be provoking a reckoning in Russia. Next, Fareed talks to Mark Mazzetti, a New York Times reporter who helped break an astonishing report that Israel worked to groom the former Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as an intelligence asset.  Then, have we reached the end of reading? Fareed asks Atlantic writer Rose Horowitch, whose cover story suggests we're getting dangerously close to that point. Finally, as Christopher Nolan's highly anticipated film “The Odyssey” hit theaters this week, many are asking how it holds up against Homer's classic. Fareed sits down with writer and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn.  GUESTS: Mikhail Zygar (@zygaro); Mark Mazzetti; Rose Horowitch (@rosehorowitch); Daniel Mendelsohn (@DAMendelsohnNYC) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

“I want someone who has regrets. I want someone who's learned the hard way. I want someone who understands that life is made of those messy compromises.” — Joel Christensen on the Odysseus he hopes to see in Matt Damon Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is out — the controversial movie of the year, much of the controversy raging before anyone had seen a frame. So, before either of us had seen the epic, I talked to the CUNY classicist Joel Christensen, author of the timely Why Odysseus? Survivor, Scoundrel, (Anti)hero. What, I asked Christensen, did he most dread about Hollywood's treatment of his beloved Odyssey? His answer: a hero too noble to be interesting. The Odysseus of the epic is a survivor, a scoundrel, an antihero — the master sergeant who does what needs to be done, from engineering the Trojan Horse to making sure Hector's infant son doesn't survive it. Christensen's worry about Matt Damon came down to one word: too likeable. What he wanted instead was a man with regrets — De Niro in Raging Bull rather than anybody noble. So did Christensen get the Odysseus he wanted? Below is his review, written after seeing the film when it came out. Postscript: Joel Christensen's Verdict on the Film Nolan's Odyssey is not Homer's Odyssey. This should be clear to anyone. Nolan faced an almost impossible task well: ancient audiences knew the story already. Modern audiences do not, so he created a ring structure with the beginning union of Penelope and Odysseus anticipating the reunion at the end, also introducing plot elements like the dog Argos and the pin by which Penelope will recognize Odysseus. The film is not Homer. Homer's power is poetry; the film's is image. Some of the images are striking: the scene when Circe turns his men into animals is the most arresting in the whole movie, showing everything that can be done with visceral imagery and a slight adaptation (Circe here is a survivor of sexual assault). The changes made to the plot such as omitting the Phaeacians, Nestor, Laertes, the bed and more are not as jarring as some of the general decisions. Calling “Zeus' Law” “do unto others…” makes an understandable translation to a Christian context, but it is somewhat nonsensical for Homer. Depicting a mutilated Helen is a strange decision that I am struggling with. What the movie gets right is making humans responsible for their own suffering. In a novel take on Odysseus as a traumatized warrior, the hero spends seven years with Calypso eating Lotus to forget the loss of his men. Damon, too likeable, regrets the trick of the Trojan Horse after witnessing the slaughter during the sack of Troy. We find out as well that the “sea people” from history, bringing an end to the “civilization” are actually the Greeks returning from the Trojan War and suffering for the transgressions they committed there. Is this ending an echo of Zeus' plan to end the race of heroes in the Trojan War? Is it an allegory for our civilizational collapse in the future thanks to technology, environmental catastrophe, and fascism? Any potential social critique dissipates with the movie's end. The traumatized veteran turns out to be merciful and kills only some of the suitors, showing many mercy. Then, guilty of violating “Zeus' Law”, Odysseus happily goes into exile with Penelope, leaving Telemachus to be king. There's no way to make Homer's Odyssey into a film and convey all its ambiguity and depth. That would be an unfair expectation. Nolan's film is a compelling spectacle and it makes me wonder more about how it reflects who we are as an audience. Do we need the hero to be ultimately good, even if he messed up? Are we so simple that we need to hear about Zeus' Law and the Sea People so repetitively? I fear that in this age where fiction and fact are so hard to disentangle, that we long for narratives that are just simpler. We don't get the Odyssey we want; we get the one we deserve. Five Takeaways •       A Complicated Man: The Translation Problem. Every word of Homer carries echoes no English can hold, and the fights over Nolan's dialogue replay the fights over translation. Emily Wilson detonated a controversy by rendering polytropos — poly, many; tropos, turn — as “a complicated man,” alluding at once to Odysseus's travels and the many forms of his character; Daniel Mendelsohn's “man of roundabout ways” does the work too, if you can stop thinking about rotaries. Even the objection to Tom Holland's Telemachus saying “dad” collapses on inspection: Telemachus uses the colloquial form in Homer. And the “authentic” dialect purists want was an artificial amalgam that no ancient Greek ever spoke. •       The Culture Wars Come for Homer. Nobody remembers a brouhaha over Wolfgang Petersen's Troy — a pretty bad movie, Christensen notes — but Nolan's Odyssey generates more controversy than a scholar can track daily. Lupita Nyong'o's Helen is attacked as inauthentic by one side and as cultural appropriation by the other; since 2015, classicists have watched the Western tradition weaponized by the alt-right while their own field argues about who owns it. Christensen's advice channels the epic itself: between Scylla and Charybdis, take Scylla. You'll lose six men. The alternative is losing the ship — and if the story doesn't persuade in three hours, nobody will remember the armor anyway. •       The Valence of Violence. Modern audiences are more accustomed to represented violence than any in history — you don't need Natural Born Killers when Twitter serves unverifiable clips from Gaza and Iran. The question Christensen brings to the film is what the violence is for. Uberto Pasolini's The Return gave Ralph Fiennes's Odysseus a steady, untroubled thump of arrows; the epic's own slaughter of the suitors, read closely, approaches Tarantino-adjacent parody. And the hardest tests are the atrocities the adaptations always cut: the mutilation of the goatherd Melanthius, and Telemachus hanging the enslaved women. Does the violence glorify the hero — or show what even the best of us are capable of? •       Keep Penelope Ambiguous. The great interpretive question of the Odyssey is when Penelope knows the beggar is her husband — the suitors, dead in the underworld, are convinced she was in on it all along. The epic grants her remarkable intelligence and agency, then reins it in: Agamemnon's ghost praises her by way of insulting all women, and she vanishes from the text. Christensen's advice to Nolan wouldn't be Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad, which centers the women's voices; it would be more screen time and total ambiguity — no access to her mind, a wife who matches her husband in wits and may even have outwitted him. Though based on Nolan's arc, he doubts we'll get a woman at the center. •       Survivor, Scoundrel, (Anti)hero. Christensen's worry about Matt Damon was simple: too likable. Odysseus is the master sergeant — the one who takes the hard orders, tricks Achilles into the war, engineers the Horse, and makes sure Hector's infant son doesn't survive to rebuild Troy. The ancient hero is neither good nor ...

Christopher Nolan's adaptation of The Odyssey hit the big screen this week. Whether you are a fan of Nolan's work or not, the reactions and debates we've seen across the board remind us of Homer's immortal appeal, and why the story of Odysseus' return to Ithaca has captivated audiences around the world for three millennia. As Daniel Mendelsohn wrote recently, “The Odyssey is a remarkably contemporary story not only because of its hero, but because of the nature of the world around him..” a “postwar world where the old certainties have disappeared.” Those watching current events unfold may have a similar feeling these days.  With the ceasefire with Iran breaking down, we're left with a good amount of uncertainty over what comes next. This is true for the Strait of Hormuz, for the Gulf, and by extension for the Eastern Mediterranean. Bringing us to Greece, this uncertainty is playing out on the political scene, where debates about early elections are picking up steam, while SYRIZA, which was once in government, has been in free fall over the last years. A new round of resignations this week has many pondering if the party has completed its historical cycle. In the spirit of Odysseus' travels across the Mediterranean, we're also heading to Turkey, where Ankara and Cairo took steps to deepen their ties when it comes to their defense cooperation and the defense industry. Daniel Mendelsohn, Elisa Catalano Ewers, Nikos Konstantaras, and Vassilis Nedos join Thanos Davelis as we look into the timeless appeal of The Odyssey, the collapse of the ceasefire with Iran and its wider ramifications, the lessons from SYRIZA's rise and fall, and the rapprochement between Turkey and Egypt. A little more info on our guests: Daniel Mendelsohn is the author of “An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic”,  whose translation of "The Odyssey” was published in paperback this spring. Elisa Catalano Ewers is a Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Nikos Konstandaras is a columnist with Kathimerini. Vassilis Nedos is Kathimerini's diplomatic and defense editor. You can support The Greek Current by joining HALC as a member here.

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey has arrived as one of the year's biggest blockbuster release - but instead of universal excitement, the film has ignited a fierce cultural and political debate. Critics have accused the Homer adaptation of prioritizing modern identity politics over historical authenticity, pointing to its colorblind casting and alleged feminist themes. Some have even labeled it "Snow White on steroids," arguing that Hollywood has once again reshaped a beloved classic to fit a contemporary agenda. Supporters, however, argue that great storytelling evolves with its audience and that adapting ancient myths for modern viewers is exactly what cinema should do. The controversy surrounding The Odyssey raises broader questions about historical accuracy, artistic freedom, and whether Hollywood should preserve the past or reinterpret it for the present. Piers Morgan is joined by two expert panels to debate the controversy from opposing perspectives, beginning with the historical and classical context before examining the wider cultural arguments surrounding one of the year's most anticipated films. Joining Piers are historian and Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson, essayist and author A.N. Wilson, author and critic Daniel Mendelsohn, BET News host Marc Lamont Hill, YouTuber Gary Buechler (Nerdrotic), and YouTuber Will Jordan (The Critical Drinker). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Homeros epos Iliaden och Odysséen får ständigt nya läsare, men också nya tolkningar. Anna Blennow konstaterar att behovet av antikens klassiker är stort, men att analyserna säger mest om vår tid. Lyssna på alla avsnitt i Sveriges Radios app. ESSÄ: Detta är en text där skribenten reflekterar över ett ämne eller ett verk. Åsikter som uttrycks är skribentens egna. Först sänd 2017-10-18.”Vreden, gudinna, besjung som brann hos Peliden Achillevs.” Så inleds det grekiska diktverket Iliaden, i Ingvar Björkesons översättning. Teorierna om hur det egentligen tillkom, när det tecknades ned, och vem dess författare egentligen var, har diskuterats från antiken och fram till våra dagar. Oavsett svaren på dessa frågor är Iliaden och Odysséen, de två epos som tillskrivs en person vid namn Homeros, grunden i västerlandets litteraturhistoria. Med ett ben i mytiska hjälteberättelser och gudasagor, och det andra i en möjlig historisk kontext på platsen där staden Troja grävts ut, återger dessa dikter berättelsen om det trojanska kriget och om dess följder för den kringirrande Odysseus.Vad kan de grekiska myterna berätta för oss? Liknade antikens Grekland vår värld, eller inte? Dessa frågor dyker ständigt upp i vår samtid, eftersom samtalet med och om den antika grekiska litteraturen oavbrutet pågår. Och behovet tycks sällan ha varit så stort som nu. Den New York-baserade författaren Daniel Mendelsohn utkom precis med boken ”An Odyssey – a Father, a Son, and an Epic”, där han reser i Odysseus kölvatten med sin far. En annan ny bok, ”Enraged – Why Violent Times Need Ancient Greek Myths” av Emily Katz Anhalt, professor i klassiska språk, lyfter fram att de antika myterna lär oss att vi får betala dyrt om vi ger efter för vrede och våld. Anhalt menar att Iliaden inte är en oproblematisk hjältesaga, utan att den istället ifrågasätter huvudpersonernas blodiga kamp och dess följder för samhället: vreden hos Akilles, grekernas främste krigare, kom att skänka sorg och död åt såväl greker som trojaner. Homeros visar att även fienden är mänsklig.Författare, forskare och journalister återvänder ständigt till de grekiska myterna för att bearbeta och förklara företeelser i vår egen tid. Så gör även Tomas Lappalainen i sin bok ”Världens första medborgare”, där han vill förklara uppkomsten av det demokratiska samhället i antikens Grekland genom att dra paralleller mellan de homeriska berättelsernas våldskultur och dagens syditalienska maffiavärld. Lappalainen, som tidigare skrivit initierade böcker om Syditaliens 'ndrangheta och camorra, hävdar att det samhälle som skymtar fram i de homeriska verken har stora likheter med maffians strukturer, eftersom intrigerna ofta behandlar teman som hämnd, beskydd och heder. Han låter sedan detta resonemang bli en förklaringsmodell till hur demokratin uppstod i Grekland som en konsekvens av att man helt enkelt var tvungen att stävja de våldsamma maktstrukturerna politiskt.Lappalainen är inte den förste som läser Iliaden och Odysséen i en civilisationshistorisk kontext. I förordet till den senaste utgåvan av Erland Lagerlöfs sekelgamla svenska översättning av Odysséen skriver akademiledamoten Jesper Svenbro att vendettan, den som driver Iliadens hela berättelse om det trojanska kriget, kommer till en slutpunkt i Odysséen. När Odysseus till sist, på Athenas inrådan, avstår från våld mot dem som söker hämnd på honom, symboliserar han övergången från individuella maktstrider till den politiska stadsstaten. Men är då de homeriska huvudpersonerna, som Lappalainen menar, i själva verket ett slags konkurrerande maffiabossar, som tar blodig hämnd på varandra och samtidigt utövar beskyddarverksamhet mot sina undersåtar? Kan man jämföra eposets arkaiska skildring med en nutida, kriminell subkultur?Den var en religiös plikt som ansågs inrättad av gudarna och som inkluderade även den fattige och främmande.I boken beskriver Lappalainen till exempel hur xenía, den grekiska gästvänskapen, utgör ett förbund mellan mäktiga ätter som skulle kunna liknas vid maffiaklanernas relationer. Men xenía är mycket mer än så. Framför allt Odysséen, berättelsen om en man som i tjugo år reser runt som en främling långt hemifrån, visar på ett långt mer komplext förhållande. När Odysseus son Telemachos i bokens inledning reser för att söka efter sin far, kommer han först till kung Nestor i Pylos. ”Alla skyndade till när de såg dessa främlingar nalkas, hälsade dem med handslag varmt och bjöd dem att sitta.” Hos Menelaos i Sparta sker detsamma. ”Vilka ni är kan vi fråga om när ni njutit av maten”. När Odysseus, skeppsbruten, sköljs upp på fajakernas strand, hittas han av kungadottern Nausikaa. Hon välkomnar den utmattade, halvnakne, smutsige främlingen med orden: ”Eftersom du nu har anlänt hit till vår stad och vårt rike, skall inga kläder saknas dig eller någonting annat av det en nödställd har rätt att få när han vädjar om misskund.” Gästvänskapen var inte ett exkluderande förbund mellan mäktiga. Den var en religiös plikt som ansågs inrättad av gudarna och som inkluderade även den fattige och främmande.Akilles var son till en gudinna, och därför var hans vrede större än vad det mänskliga förståndet kan omfatta.Iliaden och Odysséen handlar också till stor del om människornas relation till gudarna, och hur gudarna ständigt griper in såväl hämnande som stödjande. Samtidigt är gudarna inte allsmäktiga. De lyder precis som människorna under ödets lagar. Och de homeriska verkens fokus är inte huvudsakligen på de odödliga, utan på de dödliga. Det första ordet i Odysséen är ándra,”man” (i svensk översättning ”Musa, berätta om mannen…”). Sture Linnér, som skrev inledningen till Ingvar Björkesons översättning av Iliaden, pekade på hur kärnan i dikterna inte är krigets fasor, utan medlidande och mänsklighet. Detta har skänkt verken den relevans de fortfarande har idag. Samtidigt måste vi se att det ofta är saga och myt, inte samhällsfakta, som de förmedlar. Ordet för vrede i Iliadens inledning, ménis, betecknar ett gudomligt snarare än ett mänskligt raseri. Akilles var son till en gudinna, och därför var hans vrede större än vad det mänskliga förståndet kan omfatta.”Vreden, gudinna, besjung”. Lever vi återigen i vredens tidsålder? Lappalainens läsning av de antika texterna genom ett samtidsraster är symptomatisk för vår tids sätt att hantera en värld där demokratin ifrågasätts och raseriet råder. Och vårt behov av de grekiska dramerna och dikterna grundar sig just i att de ständigt kan omtolkas och återanvändas. Men de episka myterna om hjältar och krig kan inte läsas som historiska sanningar, och att förklara dem genom nutida samhällsföreteelser låter sig inte heller göras. Istället är de tidlösa verktyg för konflikthantering, sorgebearbetning och försoning. Inom det amerikanska projektet ”Theatre of War” har soldater som återvänt från militärtjänst fått ta del av grekiska tragedier som posttraumatisk stresshantering. 2016, mitt under den brännande flyktingkrisen kring Medelhavet, sattes Euripides pjäs ”Hekuba” upp i den antika teatern på ön Delos i Grekland. Hekuba, drottning i Troja, förlorar sin man och sina barn i kriget, och som krigsfånge i Grekland får hon se sin son spolas upp död på stranden.Varje tid har sina krig och sin vrede. Knappt har vi glömt dem förrän nya tider skapar nya katastrofer. Vilka hav seglar vi på idag? Vem kommer hem? Samtidens bruk av de antika grekiska texterna säger oss långt mer om vårt eget samhälle än om antikens verklighet.Anna Blennow, latinforskare och skribentLitteraturTomas Lappalainen: Världens första medborgare – Om statens uppkomst i det antika Grekland. Lind & co.Homeros: Iliaden. Översättning Ingvar Björkeson. Natur och kultur, 2009 samt i översättning av Erland Lagerlöf 1912 utgiven 2012 på Atlantis.Homeros: Odysséen. Översättning Ingvar Björkeson. Natur och kultur, 2008 samt i översättning av Erland Lagerlöf 1908 utgiven 2012 på Atlantis.

As a literary classic turns 300, Jacke talks to the University of Oxford's David Womersley about Jonathan Swift, the nature of satire, and The Cambridge Anniversary Edition of Gulliver's Travels, which Womersley edited. PLUS Daniel Mendelsohn, classics scholar and translator ofThe Odyssey, stops by to discuss his choice for the last book he will ever read. On Sale Now! For more information and to order ⁠Great Detective! An Adventure for Two People [2-Book Boxed Set]⁠ by Jacke Wilson, visit ⁠press.historyofliterature.com⁠. SPECIAL DISCOUNT! It's a month for celebrations! In honor of the birthdays of America, Emma Wilson, Jacke Wilson, and Marcel Proust, enter discount code BIRTHDAY2026 to receive 20% off your order. Offer available throughout July 2026. The music in this episode is by Gabriel Ruiz-Bernal. Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠gabrielruizbernal.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Help support the show at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠patreon.com/literature⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ or ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠historyofliterature.com/donate⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The celebrated writer Daniel Mendelsohn on his acclaimed translation of Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey. Poet Lydia Unsworth on finding inspiration for her new collection, Stay Awhile, in ring roads, shopping centres, and cooling towers.BBC New Generation Thinker, Joe Shute, on using poetry to reconnect communities to the waterway which powered Manchester's industrial revolution - the River Irk.Khadijah Ibrahiim discusses her choice of Neon Line for The Verb's long-running feature which asks a guest to talk about a line from a poem that shines out to them.Presenter Ian McMillan Producer: Ekene Akalawu

durée : 01:00:08 - par : Priscille Lafitte - Daniel Mendelsohn, écrivain américain, spécialiste des textes d'Homère, mêle l'intime et l'érudition dans ses écrits, notamment dans "L'Odyssée, un père, un fils, une épopée". Pour Musique émoi, il revient sur des expériences musicales fondatrices : le Requiem de Fauré et les quatuors de Beethoven. - réalisation : Claire Lagarde, Maud Noury - invités : Daniel Mendelsohn Écrivain et critique américain, helléniste et francophile Vous aimez ce podcast ? Pour écouter tous les épisodes sans limite, rendez-vous sur Radio France

Why Translate Homer Again? Daniel Mendelsohn on his new OdysseyThis conversation explore's Daniel Mendelsohn's new translation of The Odyssey. Mendelsohn reflects on why this endlessly retranslated text still invites fresh interpretation, describing Odysseus as a “proto-author” whose storytelling shapes reality itself.The discussion delves into the craft of translation; balancing precision with poetic vitality, preserving the strangeness of Homeric Greek while remaining readable, and making deliberate choices about line length, diction, and even spelling. Mendelsohn also highlights the influence of teaching and lifelong engagement with the text, emphasising close reading and the role of students in deepening understanding.Beyond technique, the conversation explores why The Odyssey endures. its themes of homecoming, identity, storytelling, and time continue to resonate across generations, making it both an ancient epic and a strikingly modern work.Buy The Odyssey: https://www.shakespeareandcompany.com/books/the-odyssey-51Memoirist, critic, translator, and frequent contributor of essays to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books, where he is Editor-at-Large, Daniel Mendelsohn is the author of ten books, including the international bestsellers The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, winner of the National Jewish Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, an NPR and Kirkus Best Book of the Year. His other honors include the Prix Médicis in France and the Premio Malaparte, Italy's highest honor for foreign writers. In 2022 he was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Republic of France. He is currently the Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities at Bard College.Adam Biles is Literary Director at Shakespeare and Company.Listen to Alex Freiman's latest EP, In The Beginning: https://open.spotify.com/album/5iZYPMCUnG7xiCtsFCBlVa?si=h5x3FK1URq6SwH9Kb_SO3w Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

William MarxLittératures comparéesCollège de FranceAnnée 2025-2026Athènes et Jérusalem : Littérature, Histoire, ÉcritureConférence - Daniel Mendelsohn : Antigone à CracovieDaniel MendelsohnBard College, État de New YorkRésuméCette conférence est une réflexion sur les processus souvent aléatoires par lesquels la grande littérature du passé classique a été préservée pour le présent – et une réflexion également sur le fait que la plupart des grands classiques n'aient en fait pas survécu. La question de la survie des textes s'ouvre à une enquête plus large sur ce que la littérature elle-même préserve et à quoi sert la littérature : la survie souvent accidentelle des « classiques » soulève des questions importantes sur la façon dont les canons littéraires se forment et comment se forgent les réputations littéraires. (Des neuf volumes de Sappho catalogués dans la bibliothèque d'Alexandrie, il reste précisément deux poèmes ; et pourtant Sappho est « canonique ».) Vers la fin de sa conférence, Daniel Mendelsohn relie ces pensées à une histoire plus récente (et personnelle) dont les thèmes sont l'ambition culturelle face à l'anéantissement : l'histoire qu'il a entendue, en faisant ses recherches pour ses « Disparus », d'un survivant de l'Holocauste qui lui a raconté l'histoire de la première chose qui s'est produite après la fin de la guerre en Pologne : une production d'« Antigone ».

William MarxLittératures comparéesCollège de FranceAnnée 2025-2026Athènes et Jérusalem : Littérature, Histoire, ÉcritureConférence - Daniel Mendelsohn : Cavafy et l'érotisme de la perteDaniel MendelsohnBard College, État de New YorkRésuméLe grand poète grec alexandrin Constantin Cavafy (1863-1933) continue de nous fasciner par la manière habile et suggestive avec laquelle il entrelace l'histoire hellénique antique et certaines préoccupations très modernes : la sexualité, l'identité, le temps, l'écriture. Dans cette conférence, Daniel Mendelsohn retrace l'évolution de l'art poétique de Cavafy depuis ses premiers travaux en tant qu'acolyte inexpérimenté de Baudelaire et des Parnassiens jusqu'à son œuvre de maturité inimitable et tellement distinctive des années 1920 et 1930. Dans ces chefs-d'œuvre-ci, l'Éros et la perte – la mort, la séparation, l'oubli – s'entrelacent de manière inextricable et mémorable, créant à la fois un passé profondément hanté (par les histoires archaïque, classique, hellénistique, romaine, byzantine) et un modernisme tonique, voire moderniste. Pour Cavafy, placer le désir hors de portée du présent est ce qui rend possible l'écriture de la poésie.

William MarxLittératures comparéesCollège de FranceAnnée 2025-2026Athènes et Jérusalem : Littérature, Histoire, ÉcritureConférence - Daniel Mendelsohn : L'Odyssée et ses migrations : déplacement, errance, identitéDaniel MendelsohnBard College, État de New YorkRésuméL'Odyssée d'Homère est depuis longtemps reconnue comme le texte fondateur par excellence de l'Occident sur les voyages de découverte, servant de modèle à des œuvres aussi variées que L'Enfer de Dante et Star Trek à la télévision. Car, au cours de sa décennie de retour de la guerre de Troie, le héros de l'épopée, Ulysse, rencontre des formes de vie étranges (et parfois monstrueuses) et différents types de civilisations, dont certaines sont plus avancées et d'autres sont plus primitives que la sienne, chacune d'entre elles l'obligeant à évaluer la nature du foyer dans laquelle il aspire si farouchement à retourner. Mais au moment où il rentre chez lui, ses privations déchirantes et ses expériences de captif et de mendiant semblent avoir laissé une marque indélébile. Dans cette conférence, Daniel Mendelsohn examine les voyages anciens de l'Odyssée et la manière dont ils peuvent éclairer les questions urgentes d'aujourd'hui : la migration, les réfugiés, la citoyenneté, et ce que signifie cartographier son identité, à la fois personnelle et politique, dans un monde aux frontières mouvantes.

durée : 00:39:11 - L'Invité(e) des Matins - par : Guillaume Erner, Yoann Duval - Entretien avec l'écrivain et critique américain Daniel Mendelsohn pour la parution de son livre "Entrelacs" - un livre qui explore les origines d'un genre littéraire qui lui appartient, entre exégèse et récit autobiographique, et qui dit toute l'importance de la littérature en temps de crise. - réalisation : Félicie Faugère - invités : Daniel Mendelsohn Écrivain et critique américain, helléniste et francophile

durée : 02:30:29 - Les Matins - par : Guillaume Erner, Yoann Duval - Ce matin, sur France Culture, à 7h40, Guillaume Erner reçoit l'écrivain américain Daniel Mendelsohn pour son dernier livre "Entrelacs" publié au Seuil. A 7h17, le politologue Ziad Majed analyse la manière dont la guerre en Iran s'est étendue au Liban, à la suite des bombardements israéliens. - réalisation : Félicie Faugère

William MarxLittératures comparéesCollège de FranceAnnée 2024-2025Athènes et Jérusalem : Littérature, Histoire, ÉcritureConférence - Daniel Mendelsohn : Mémoire, Histoire, Les Disparus : écrire la Shoah pour la prochaine générationDaniel MendelsohnBard College, État de New YorkRésuméEn s'appuyant sur son expérience de recherche, d'écriture, puis de tournée de ses « Disparus » à travers le monde, Daniel Mendelsohn explore la signification de la Shoah en tant qu'événement à la fois historique et littéraire, à mesure que le temps passe et que l'événement appartient à une nouvelle génération d'écrivains et de lecteurs, qui n'ont plus de contact direct avec l'événement lui-même. De manière un peu provocatrice, il suggère que l'injonction « ne jamais oublier » est, par essence, anti-littéraire : la littérature – parce qu'elle forge un récit vaste et gérable à partir d'événements historiques pour que les cultures puissent l'utiliser – doit « oublier » les histoires individuelles, lissant et façonnant des souvenirs particuliers en paraboles dont nous avons besoin pour vivre.

Maus av Art Spiegelman er en av vår tids beste skildringer av holocaust. Basert på en rekke intervjuer med faren skapte Art Spiegelman en grafisk roman om hvordan faren overlevde andre verdenskrig som jøde i Øst-Europa. Maus har vunnet en rekke priser og er oversatt til mer enn 30 språk. Så hvorfor har den blitt forsøkt forbudt? I serien "Ikke les denne boka" snakker vi om bøker om har blitt forsøkt sensurert. Dette er de andre forfatterne og titlene som nevnes i episoden: - Art Spiegelman, Maus - George Orwell, Animal farm - Commandos behind enemy lines (dataspill) - Will Eisner - Tessa Hulls, Feeding Ghosts: A Graphic Memoir - Schindlers liste (film) - Daniel Mendelsohn, Forsvunnet - Steffen Kverneland, En frivillig død - Steffen Kverneland, Slyngel - The Simpsons (TV-serie) - Art Spiegelman, In the shadow of no towers - Karl Ove Knausgård, Min kamp - Menn uten midje kan også lese (podcast) - Alan Weisman, Verden uten oss

Highlights from Arena this week, with Daniel Mendelsohn on his new translation of The Odyssey, Paul Mescal and director Oliver Hermanus on their new film The History Of Sound... and Sibéal Ní Chasaide with two beautiful songs from our Arena Tradfest Studio 1 Special.

Patient Labyrinth - Daniel Mendelsohn - The History of Sound

I'm joined today by Cosima Carnegie, better known on social media as Cosi's Odyssey: a classicist, writer, and creative producer whose work brings Greek myth and ritual into the present through essays, videos, and immersive events. We're talking not only about her journey into Classics, but about the four books that have most influenced her on her path to scholarship. It's a great blend that opens up conversations about childhood reading, ancient ritual, the visual imagination of Greek art, and what it means to inherit stories across generations.Talking to Cosi was a huge amount of fun, and I know you're going to enjoy listening to this conversation as much as I enjoyed having it.Lit with Charles loves reviews. If you enjoyed this episode, I'd be so grateful if you could leave a review of your own, and follow me on Instagram at @litwithcharles. Let's get more people listening – and reading!Cosi Carnegie's four books were:Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Rick Riordan (2005–09)Medea, Euripides (431 BC)The Aesthetics of the Greek Banquet, François Lissarrague (1990)An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, Daniel Mendelsohn (2017)

Bridging the ancient and the urgent, historian James Romm and acclaimed author and translator Daniel Mendelsohn dive into the dramatic story behind Plato and the Tyrant. This is not the Plato of abstract thought, but a man deeply entangled in the brutal politics of his time...a philosopher who sought to reshape power itself. Romm and Mendelsohn explore how Plato's real-world entanglements with tyrants and revolutionaries in Syracuse directly influenced his philosophical masterpiece, Republic, and how the ideal of the philosopher-king emerged from a world teetering on the edge of chaos.With Mendelsohn's signature insight and Romm's vivid storytelling, this event is a dynamic exploration of one of history's greatest minds, revealing a Plato who was ambitious, politically engaged, and profoundly shaped by personal and political crisis. You can find James' recently released book,Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece, here. https://www.amazon.com/Plato-Tyrant-G... Also make sure to check out Daniel's acclaimed new translation of the Odyssey here. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/... Hosted by Anya Leonard. This discussion is brought to you by Classical Wisdom, a site dedicated to bringing ancient wisdom to modern minds. To learn more about Classical Wisdom and sign up for our free newsletter, go to : https://classicalwisdom.substack.com/

This week, AE Stallings immerses herself in Daniel Mendelsohn's new translation of Homer's Odyssey; and Dinah Birch is intrigued by an ambitious novel twenty years in the making. 'The Odyssey', by Homer, translated by Daniel Mendelsohn 'The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny', by Kiran DesaiProduced by Charlotte Pardy Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Well, I mean for starters it still is the greatest first sentence ever,” says Francine Prose in this week's episode of The World in Time. “I mean, three words. A three-word first sentence. I think if you were to ask a kind of range of readers, ‘Can you think of a first sentence?' You know, you probably get ‘It was the best of times, and the worst of times' or ‘the worst of times, and the best of times,' and people would get it backwards. But then you get ‘Call me Ishmael.' Because it establishes this kind of—you know, so much of the book is about authority. About authority, and the lack of authority, and what authority is, and who has it, and what you do with it. And that sentence is just pure authority. Pure narrative authority. ‘Call me Ishmael.' Bingo. It's like, ‘Okay, well, we're going to call you Ishmael.'” This week on the podcast, the Quarterly's editor-at-large Francine Prose returns for an in-depth conversation with Donovan Hohn about Moby Dick's first chapter, “Loomings.” They consider the meanings of the verb to loom, whether Ishmael is likeable or funny, whether the American sermon influenced Melville's oratorical prose, why the antebellum religious press condemned the novel, and what the best medicine might be for “the universal thump.” Earlier episodes in this series: Episode 7 with Daniel Mendelsohn and Episode 8 with Wyatt Mason.

“In a famous episode, he says his name is Nobody, which in a way is obviously a lie,” says writer, scholar, and translator Daniel Mendelsohn in this episode of The World in Time. “But in another way is sort of true because he has become a nobody, right? And another way to describe the sort of narrative arc of The Odyssey is: he has to go from being a nobody and reclaim his identity and be a somebody again. So, the question of the nature of identity—you know, he's been changed by twenty years of aging, by trauma, by terrible suffering, and yet when he gets home, he has to ‘prove,' quote-unquote, that he is the same person who left. And that, I think, raises one of the most fascinating questions of the epic—and this speaks to something we know about from our own lives—which is: is there a part of you that remains the same despite the changes that we undergo in life? And that's the sort of paradox, I think, that's at the center of the poem. Everybody changes in twenty years, and yet you feel the same in many ways. The Odyssey delves into these very profound questions.” This week's episode of The World in Time is the first in a series of episodes about The Sea (Summer 2013). Donovan Hohn speaks with Daniel Mendelsohn about his new translation of The Odyssey, traveling back to antiquity in search of the origins of the Homeric epic. Then, in archival audio from 2013, editorial board member Aidan Flax-Clark interviews Lewis H. Lapham about his childhood reading of Moby-Dick, about Lapham's greenhorn voyages, and about a doomed shipwreck hunt in the early 1960s that Lapham wrote about for The Saturday Evening Post.

Homer's Odyssey is one of the oldest surviving works of literature - and yet, somehow, it can also feel like one of the newest. The inventive narrative structure, complex hero, and surprisingly modern themes still feel fresh, thousands of years after the poem's genesis. In this episode, Jacke talks to author and translator Daniel Mendelsohn about his passion for the Odyssey and his efforts to breathe new poetic life into the ancient epic through a vivid new translation. PLUS Jacke announces the official launch of the History of Literature Podcast Tour! Join Jacke and a limited group of travelers as they go on their own epic journey, visiting literary locations in England in partnership with John Shors Travel. Links: Visit the History of Literature Podcast Tour itinerary at John Shors Travel. The Odyssey by Homer, translated with an introduction and notes, by Daniel Mendelsohn An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn The music in this episode is by Gabriel Ruiz-Bernal. Learn more at gabrielruizbernal.com . Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate . The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature . Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

DANIEL MENDELSOHN, editor of "NY Times Review of Books" is the new translator of Homer's "ODYSSEY."  Scholar, editor, essayist, translator.

For this live taping of the literary podcast Between the Covers—recorded at Jewish Currents's daylong event on September 15th and presented in partnership with On the Nose—host David Naimon convened a conversation with renowned writers Dionne Brand and Adania Shibli about contesting colonial narratives. Rooted in their long-standing literary practice and in the demands of this moment of genocide, they discuss the vexed meanings of home, how to recover the everydayness of life erased by empire, and what it means to imagine togetherness beyond the nation-state.This episode was produced by David Naimon, with music by Alicia Jo Rabins. Thanks also to Jesse Brenneman for additional editing and to Nathan Salsburg for the use of his song “VIII (All That Were Calculated Have Passed).Texts Mentioned and Additional Resources:Minor Detail by Adania ShibliA Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging by Dionne BrandCivil Service by Claire SchwartzThe Blue Clerk by Dionne BrandAdania Shibli in conversation with Hisham Matar at the 2024 Hay FestivalAdania Shibli in conversation with Madeleine Thien and Layli Long Soldier at the Barnard Center for Research on Women“Writing Against Tyranny and Toward Liberation,” Dionne Brand“Dionne Brand: Nomenclature — New and Collected Poems,” Between the Covers“Adania Shibli: Minor Detail,” Between the Covers“prologue for now - Gaza,” Dionne Brand, Jewish Currents“Duty,” Daniel Mendelsohn, New York Review of Books“A Lesson in Arabic Grammar by Toni Morrison,” Adania Shibli, Jewish CurrentsInventory by Dionne BrandRecognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative by Isabella Hammad“Isabella Hammad: Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative,” Between the...

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Go tell it on the mountain, darlings! Join the queens for a special Breaking Form report on the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.If you'd like to support Breaking Form:Review the show on Apple Podcasts here.Buy our books:     Aaron's STOP LYING is available from the Pitt Poetry Series.     James's ROMANTIC COMEDY is available from Four Way Books.SHOW NOTESIf you don't know about Absolutely Fabulous, which first ran from 1992-95, you're missing out. Catch Edina and Patsy's best moments here. Mona van Duyn taught at Bread Loaf at least once--according to this poster. Check out audio recordings of Bread Loaf readings and lectures here. I can also recommend the reading by Adrian Matejka & Paul Lisicky, both of whom read from work about celebrity icons (it was like a class on how to do that well).The t-slur has been recognized as an offensive slur for at least 10 years, if not more, as this Advocate article about the slur indicates.Daniel Mendelsohn's review ("A Striptease Among Pals") of Hana Yanagihara's A Little Life can be read here (sorry about the paywall!) and the whole dustup gets further press in this Guardian article.For more information about and to apply to the Bread Loaf Writers' Conferences (there are other conferences in environmental writing and in translation), visit their website here.

Allow Kimberly to point out the intricacies, the nuance, the FACTS of what Akbar is really saying at the end of his insanely great novel. Tune in to hear Kimberly argue a few sides of this coin. She follows Daniel Mendelsohn's advice to treat literature like a social science: look carefully at the DATA. If you're like all the folks on the internet who have real questions about this novel's close, you're in the right place.

An episode from 11/29/23: Tonight, I share two stories from the Shoah, or Holocaust. The first is about the Sonderkommando, those prisoners forced to do the most devastating work in the concentration camps. During a 2015 Fresh Air interview with László Nemes and Géza Röhrig about their 2015 film, Son of Saul, a brief story about an actual Sonderkommando member is told. It remains one of the most overwhelming minutes that I have ever heard. In the second part, I read from Daniel Mendelsohn's 2006 book, The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million. The book is Mendelsohn's attempt to discover what happened to six members of his family who were murdered in the Holocaust, and the section I read from is about the difficulty of truly entering the mind and situation of a sixteen year-old girl, who is rounded up with a thousand other Jews, and murdered. You can support Human Voices Wake Us here, or by ordering any of my books: Notes from the Grid, To the House of the Sun, The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old, and Bone Antler Stone. You can also leave a review at iTunes. Email me at humanvoiceswakeus1@gmail.com. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/humanvoiceswakeus/support

Closing out our Emmy coverage, today we feature Ken Burns (“Brooklyn Bridge”, “The Civil War”, “Jazz”) and Lynn Novick (“Frank Lloyd Wright”, “Baseball”, “Hemingway”) discussing their thrice-Emmy nominated “The U.S. and the Holocaust”.  As Ken tells us, this PBS series addresses the “Holocaust, one of the low points of humanity and what Americans knew and what they didn't know, what they did, and more importantly, what they didn't do.”   Ken and Lynn first explain why they start with the story of Anne Frank and her family, and how it reveals how we often don't fully understand the American context of such stories.  They speak with Mike about the deep anti-immigrationist and antisemitic feelings of America between the world wars.  They explain in particular how Eugenics was used to buttress the laws severely limiting immigration, especially from Southern Europe and Eastern Europe–the latter being where most of the world's Jews then lived.  They go on to explain how American Eugenics, along with the ideology of Manifest Destiny and even Jim Crow laws influenced the Nazis and gave them a template for their atrocities.  And they discuss some of what Ken calls “the points of light” in this most horrific time:  Some of the Americans–singularly or in organizations–who stepped up to help Jews escape.   Throughout, as the series shows the depths of the Nazi horrors and the failure of the U.S.--with the notable exception of winning the war–to muster a meaningful response, it demonstrates the importance of maintaining what writer Daniel Mendelsohn calls “the particularity” of the stories of those who died and those who survived.   Hidden Gems:  The Better Angels   Follow: @KenBurns on twitter and @kenlburns on Instagram @LynnNovick on twitter and Instagram @topdocspod on Instagram and twitter   The Presenting Sponsor of "Top Docs" is Netflix.

Before the shovels hit the dirt, before a developer gets construction permits, before an MOU is signed, there exists a huge process of project feasibility, planning, and pre-approval. That process is incredibly complex and costly, but a new Multilateral Cooperation Center for Development Finance (MCDF) has been established to help. Shuang Liu joins Juliet and Erik on this episode to discuss how this might help kick start and expand the pipeline of more sustainable projects, and her broader goals in working at the World Resources Institute.Shuang Liu is the China Finance Director and Acting Director at the Sustainable Finance Center at the World Resources Institute. She leads the Center's work on China finance and the Belt and Road Initiative, and works with governments, private financial institutions, NGOs, and other partners to enhance the regulatory framework and provide enabling conditions to shift China's investment to sustainable finance. She holds a master's degree in environmental and resource economics from University College London and a bachelor's in economics from Peking University.Her article on the Panda Paw Dragon Claw blog is entitled, "Can a Chinese-led multilateral initiative help unlock more sustainable infrastructure in the Global South?"Recommendations:Shuang:An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic by Daniel Mendelsohn (2018)Juliet:Try to bike more in the summer, or pick up any activity that is good for both yourself and the planet!Erik:Outsourcing Repression episode of the Pekingology podcast with Lynette H. Ong and host Jude Blanchette Outsourcing Repression: Everyday State Power in Contemporary China by Lynette H. Ong (2022)

About this Episode Back in the 1990s, Leah Eichler, then a young reporter, interviewed her grandmother extensively about her experiences as an Auschwitz survivor. In this episode, Leah discusses her book-development journey working with coach & TBIHTW host Paul Zakrzewski. If you've been overwhelmed by a book you want to write – but aren't sure where to start – this is the episode for you.Discussed On This Episode:·       The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, by Daniel Mendelsohn·       My uncle often went missing. I worried about the day he wouldn't come back, The Globe and Mail, Oct 8, 2021·       Esoterica Magazine    Important Moments How Leah's interview with her grandmother in the 1990s resulted in the "bubbe tapes" How the book coaching process helped Leah evolve her idea Influence of Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million Highlights of Leah's June "roots" trip to Hungary to research her grandmother's story Leah's recent publication successes with an essay about tattoos & intergenerational trauma; and another essay about being in a interracial marriage and competing historical traumas Leah's background as a journalist and its impact on writing her memoir Leah's work as creator and editor of Esoterica MagazineCreditsThis episode was edited and produced by Chérie Newman at Magpie Audio Productions. Theme music is "The Stone Mansion" by BlueDot Productions.     Get full access to The Book I Want to Write at bookiwanttowrite.substack.com/subscribe

"For me Alexandria is a city of nostalgic imagination, the dream of a lost cosmopolitan world. I've mixed the recording with "Voices," a poem by the Greek Alexandrian poet Constantine Cavafy, read in 1972  by the painter Yiannis Tsarouchis, and lapped two of the city's other languages against it like the waves. The French version is my adaptation; the English one  is by Daniel Mendelsohn. I am still searching for an Arabic translation. The final voice is that of an Egyptian melon seller. The 1972 recording is used by kind permission of Agra Publications and the Yiannis Tsarouchis Foundation." Seaside at Alexandria reimagined by Maria Margaronis.

This episode is also available as a blog post: https://thecitylife.org/2023/04/26/elizabeth-peyton-james-fenton-daniel-mendelsohn-and-nicolas-party-join-frick-director-and-curators-in-responding-to-works-from-the-collection/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/citylifeorg/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/citylifeorg/support

In this episode: It's the personal, specific and unique stories that make readers feel something. Small stories are so powerful and touch people's hearts, and that's why we read - to feel.After reading Daniel Mendelsohn's The Lost: A search for Six of Six Million for the third time, Edward di Gangi knew he had to at least try to find his birth mother and discover where and who he came from.This led him on a voyage of discovery. His birth mother turned out to be Genevieve Knorowski, a very successful ice-dancer in the 1940s and 1950s, when ice-dancing was at the height of its popularity.Di Gangi intertwines a homage to his mother's success with his own research journey and how it shaped his understanding of what mothers go through when they make the difficult decision to give their child up for adoption.The Gift Best Given is a story of love and drama against a backdrop of 1940s glamour.Links:www.digangiauthor.comEdward Di Gangi • Instagram photos and videosThe Gift Best Given, Edward di GangiThe Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, Daniel MendelsohnLine Editing Made Simple Kick-start your editing for free!Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase, I may receive a commission at no extra cost to you.Support the show

In this episode of 92NY Talks, award-winning filmmakers Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein discuss their PBS documentary series, The U.S. and the Holocaust.  The filmmakers are joined by Daniel Mendelsohn, bestselling author of The Lost and a descendant of Holocaust victims, who is also featured in the film, and moderator Kara Swisher, co-host of the Pivot podcast. The conversation was recorded on September 14, 2022 in front of a live audience at The 92nd Street Y, New York.

Hvordan former verden rundt oss historiene vi forteller om den? Det er et av de sentrale spørsmålene Daniel Mendelsohn utforsker i sin siste bok, som nå er ute på norsk i Christian Rugstads oversettelse.I Tre ringer tar Mendelsohn for seg tre forfattere som alle skrev sine hovedverker i eksil: Erich Auerbach, som flyktet fra Hitlers Tyskland; François Fénelon, som ble forvist til Cambrai av kong Ludvig XIV; og W. G. Sebald, som levde i selvvalgt eksil i England. Hvilken betydning hadde eksilet for skrivingen?Mendelsohn tar leseren med på en reise gjennom Europas kulturhistorie, og inn i hans eget tunge arbeid med to av hans tidligere bøker: Forsvunnet, der han følger sine familiemedlemmers skjebne i holocaust, og memoarboka En odyssé. En far, en sønn og et epos, som beskriver farens siste leveår.Daniel Mendelsohn er professor i klassisk litteratur, en anerkjent kritiker og forfatter av en rekke prisbelønte bøker. Opprinnelig skulle han besøkt Litteraturhust i august, men reisen ble utsatt på grunn av pandemien. Endelig kan han møte professor i kulturhistorie ved Universitetet i Oslo, Helge Jordheim, til samtale på Litteraturhuset. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Psychiater Dirk De Wachter stelt ‘Een Odyssee' van de Amerikaanse schrijver Daniel Mendelsohn voor in onze podcast Letteren, een boek dat hij van zijn zoon kreeg toen hij op zijn ziekbed lag.  ‘Een Odyssee' gaat over de relatie tussen een vader en een zoon. Dirk De Wachter en zijn zoon lazen het gelijktijdig en praatten dan over het boek. Hij praat over ‘Een Odyssee' en over veel meer in deze aflevering van Letteren.  Deze zomer hebben we vier afleveringen van Letteren, waarin Guinevere Claeys praat met een bekende lezer. U kan de hele reeks nu al beluisteren in de app DS Podcast (zoek op 'Letteren') of op eender welk ander podcastplatform.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Daniel Mendelsohn's latest book you could say is about digression and about ring composition, a form of storytelling with digression at its heart. And yet this book, about digression, is not only his shortest and most concise, a mere 112 pages, but also somehow contains all the concerns of his previous books and much more, […] The post Daniel Mendelsohn : Three Rings — A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate appeared first on Tin House.

Today Claire talks about a new book she's discovered by Daniel Mendelsohn. It's called 'Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate".

The Sacred Band of Thebes, comprised entirely of gay male lovers, was Ancient Greece's original response to the gays in the military question. What was that like? How did it function? And what was its lasting legacy? That's what we're going to find out today, just in time for Pride Month. Here to help us do it is classicist James Romm, author of The Sacred Band: Three Hundred Theban Lovers Fighting to Save Greek Freedom. By the way, the New Yorker article referenced in the episode is "Ancient Greece's Army of Lovers" by Daniel Mendelsohn. Don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Support the show on Patreon at www.patreon.com/btnewberg and get a hand-drawn portrait. Research, writing, editing, and production by B. T. Newberg. Logo Design by Rachel Westhoff. Animation by Maxeem Konrardy. Additional credits, references, and more at www.historyofsexpod.com.

Ed Di Gangi was adopted at birth in New York City. An only child, he made no effort to explore his heredity until, at age 67, a visit to a cemetery where members of his adoptive mother's family were buried and a story by Daniel Mendelsohn stirred his interest. ​ Over the past three years, through extensive archival research and DNA testing, Ed has peeled back the layers of his once unknown family. It turned out his birth mother was not who he thought she was at all. ​ You don't want to miss this remarkable story. Click here to download a transcript for this episode. Relevant Links Ed's Website The Gift Best Given: A Memoir* by Ed Di Gangi Connect with Ed on Instagram Watch Ed's Birth Mom Ice Skate The Lost* by Daniel Mendelsohn *This is an affiliate link

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When Daniel Mendelsohn signed up for a Mediterranean cruise to Ithaca with his aging father, neither of them could have predicted what would happen next

On today's show, I talk with Daniel Mendelsohn, Professor of Classics at Bard College and the author of “An Odyssey: A Father, A son and an Epic.” Mendelsohn has a very unique and personal story about his experience teaching the Odyssey. IN 2011, his eighty-one year old father enrolled in his seminar course about the Odyseey, which initiates a father-son adventure that is both emotionally and intellectually stunning. In this episode we talk about how the Odyssey has the power to reveal hidden truths about ourselves and offers ancient advice and wisdom on how to live the good life.IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN:What is the Odyssey and why is it still relevant today?What does the Odyssey have to teach us about life, family, relationships?What is the nature of identity?How do we truly know someone?What is the role of storytelling in the Good Life?What can we learn about ourselves and others by reading the Odyssey?HELP US OUT!Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a rating and review! It takes less than 30 seconds and really helps our show grow, which allows us to bring on even better guests for you all! Thank you – we really appreciate it!BOOKS AND RESOURCESAn Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic by Daniel MendelsohnCapital One. This is Banking Reimagined.CONNECT WITH DANIEL MENDELSOHNDaniel's WebsiteDaniel's Twitter AccountEmail: mail@danielmendelsohn.comGET IN TOUCH WITH SEAN MURRAYSean's Twitter AccountSean's LinkedIn AccountEmail: Sean@TheInvestorsPodcast.comWebsite: RealTime Performance, Inc.Weekly Newsletter: RealTime Performance NewsletterRead the full transcript and show notes on: https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/the-good-life/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Amit Chaudhuri, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Daniel Mendelsohn and Emily Wilson join Philip Dodd to explore translating, rewriting and using Homer's epic work to frame a memoir. Emily Wilson has published a new translation of The Odyssey Daniel Mendelsohn has written An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and An Epic Karen McCarthy Woolf wrote Nightshift as part of a BBC Radio 4's Odyssey Project which commissioned ten writers to create a contemporary response. Her most recent collection is called Seasonal Disturbances. Amit Chaudhuri has written a novel called Odysseus Abroad which draws on A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and The Odyssey.