Daniel Mendelsohn
@DAMendelsohnNYC
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Author (The Lost; An Odyssey; 3 Rings; etc); translator (#Cavafy, Homer’s #Odyssey); #Classics; Ed-@-Large @nybooks; Dir@silversfound 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇬🇷🇳🇴🏳️🌈
New York
Joined February 2019
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It’s pretty heady to be shopping around homegoods and its chaos while listening to The Odyssey narrated by @DAMendelsohnNYC 😅
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My @nybooks essay on #September11 movies: September 11 at the Movies | Daniel Mendelsohn | The New York Review of Books
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At a quarter to nine on the morning of September 11, 2001, I was driving down the West Side Highway in Manhattan in a car filled with scholarly texts about Greek tragedy. It was a Tuesday, and the...
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focusing on new translations of the Odyssey in an advanced English class in high school could be an exciting experience. one can imagine the discussions if several translations are read side by side--a revelation to young readers that the world "is" its interpretations; that
@JoyceCarolOates Homer is still common in the 9th grade, although an entire epic isn’t. When people remember “reading The Odyssey” in high school, especially if it’s 9th or 10th grade, it’s usually excerpts. The whole thing would take a full quarter and is too unwieldy.
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Une page de l’Iliade annotée de la main de Jean Racine
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“A proud man, he did not assent to committing suicide. He therefore armed himself with extreme will-power, closed himself off in his house, became his own vigilant guard, and transformed his Art into life.” – The Athenian poet Myrtiotissa recalls visiting Cavafy, 1924.
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@vilem_vok @DAMendelsohnNYC Uno dei libri più belli degli ultimi anni. L’Odissea diventa qualcosa di primordiale e contemporaneo allo stesso tempo.
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"The Iliad is simplex and pathos-driven, while the Odyssey is complex (for there is recognition throughout) and character-driven; and furthermore he has surpassed everyone in style and thought," Aristotle, Poetics 1459b15.
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“And my longings wear their mourning black.” – C.P. Cavafy, “September of 1903”, translated by @DAMendelsohnNYC
#poetry #cavafy
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Join @DAMendelsohnNYC for a six-session webinar on his new translation of Homer's Odyssey. 🎟️ https://t.co/U6RJ2QOdRQ
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Join Daniel Mendelsohn for a six-session webinar on his new translation of Homer's Odyssey
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“But your soul seeks, weeps for other things.” –C.P. Cavafy, “The Satrapy”, translated by @DAMendelsohnNYC
#poetry #cavafy
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@CCavafy @DAMendelsohnNYC "...poems are sometimes referred to but not quoted, which means that it is essential to have an edition of the poems to hand – ideally Daniel Mendelsohn’s superb translation of the Complete Poems, which includes unfinished and ‘repudiated’ works."
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C.P. Cavafy, who had a very high opinion of his own work, would no doubt be gratified to learn that he is now one of the most admired poets of the 20th century. This is all the more remarkable...
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« Aucune expression, aucune peinture ne peut rendre la rage qui saisit les écrivains quand leur amour-propre souffre… » #Balzac, « Illusions perdues » (1837-43)
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