Mendelsohn grew up in a family haunted by the disappearance of six relatives during the Holocaust--an unmentionable subject during his childhood. Decades later, spurred by the discovery of a cache of desperate letters written to his grandfather in 1939, he embarked on a hunt for the remaining eyewitnesses of his relatives' fates. This is their ...
C. P. Cavafy (1863-1933) lived in relative obscurity in Alexandria, and a collected edition of his poems was not published until after his death. Now, however, he is regarded as the most important figure in twentieth-century Greek poetry, and his poems are considered among the most powerful in modern European literature. Here is an extensively ...
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 ...
The collected works--including the previously unpublished final poems--of the greatest modern Greek poet, translated by the renowned critic, classicist, and award-winning author of "The Lost." Powerfully moving, searching, and wise, Cavafy's poetry and the stories he tells brilliantly make the historical personal.
This book is the first book-length study of Euripides' so-called 'political plays ("Children of Herakles" and "Suppliant Women") to appear in half a century. Still disdained as the anomalously patriotic or propagandistic works of a playwright elsewhere famous for his subversive, ironic artistic ethos, the two works in question, notorious for their ...
A classical scholar weaves ancient texts throughout his memoir of childhood, family, and homosexual love, while at the same time lending unique insight to contemporary culture. A New York Times Notable Book of 1999.
Here are two acclaimed memoirs in one remarkable volume. In an extraordinarily compelling voice, Dorothy Gallagher tells stories taking us from her parents' beginnings in the Ukraine to her own childhood in 1940s New York, through the many adventures of her extended family and into her own adult life. Her themes are universal: the fragility of ...
A classical scholar weaves ancient texts throughout his memoir of childhood, family, and homosexual love, while at the same time lending unique insight to contemporary culture. A New York Times Notable Book of 1999.
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