Waiting For The Barbarians - Daniel Mendelsohn

Waiting For The Barbarians - Daniel Mendelsohn

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Over the past decade and a half Daniel Mendelsohn s reviews for The New York Review of Books The New Yorker and The New York Times Book Review have earned him a reputation as one of the greatest critics of our time (Poets & Writers). In Waiting for the Barbarians he brings together twenty-four of his recent essays each one glinting with verve and sparkle acumen and passion on a wide range of subjects from Avatar to the poems of Arthur Rimbaud from our inexhaustible fascination with the Titanic to Susan Sontag s Journals. Trained as a classicist author of two internationally best-selling memoirs Mendelsohn moves easily from penetrating considerations of the ways in which the classics continue to make themselves felt in contemporary life and letters (Greek myth in the Spider-Man musical Anne Carson s translations of Sappho) to trenchant takes on pop spectacles none more explosively controversial than his dissection of Mad Men. Also gathered here are essays devoted to the art of fiction from Jonathan Littell s Holocaust blockbuster The Kindly Ones to forgotten gems like the novels of

TITLE: Waiting For The Barbarians

AUTHOR: Daniel Mendelsohn

SKU: 9781590177136

PUBLISHER: The New York Review of Books Inc

DATE PUBLISHED: 15/03/2014

PLACE PUBLISHED: United States

PAGES: 432

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 141 mm x 209 mm x 24 mm

WEIGHT: 513 gr

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