There are still great storytellers pending to be fully translated into Spanish. In the case of Daniel mendelsohn It seems incredible that this is the case. Because what we are missing is a lot in this writer from which that transcendent literature is distilled, rooted in a classic imaginary of our civilization but widely projected on the current world. Although Mendelsohn also exploits other novelistic aspects, this is perhaps the most interesting, at least from what has been translated so far.
In a way it reminds me of our Irene Vallejo in his passion for an ancient world full of myths and tragedies that are repeated to infinity. An endless spiral since man is a civilized man, capable of manifesting his perception of the world, of expressing fears, desires, passions and dreams thanks to language, the most powerful weapon.
With the full conviction that there is nothing new under the sun, it can be understood that Greek, Roman, Egyptian or anyone who had a communication channel from sapiens here or there, that thought opened reason to the world. abroad. Discovering then the soul capable of reaching another soul. There is no other choice but to assume that the humans of the ancient world were the discoverers of everything human. A debt that authors like Mendelsohn are willing to pay with their brilliant rescue for current readers around the world.
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An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, An Epic
Undoubtedly the metaphor of metaphors, of life as a journey, is synthesized in the hackneyed resource of the term odyssey as any assumption of any existential enterprise. But the word has certainly come to us with that charm full of details.
In other words, "Odyssey" and everything acquires a greater dramatic weight, a touch of adventure, a transcendental approach. Hence, precisely Mendelsohn has once again resorted to the idea to address the relationship between father and son. Because having children is the adventure, the question, the notion that you leave something behind when you die, if everything goes as it should in your particular odyssey ...
When the 81-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the seminar on The odyssey that his son teaches at the university, he did not imagine the emotional and intellectual adventure in which both were about to embark. For Jay, a retired scientist who saw the world through the eyes of a rigid mathematician, going back to the classroom was his last chance to get to know one of the great classics of literature that had always resisted him, but above all, the last chance to understand his son, a prestigious writer, a lover of the classics and a homosexual.
The sunken
This book begins with the story of a boy who grew up in a family hit by tragedy: six of its members disappeared in Europe during the Second World War. It was a matter that could not be discussed and that gradually took over the imagination of young Daniel Mendelsohn. Many years later, after the discovery of some letters that his grandfather received in 1939, the silence became a question that challenged him and he decided to follow the trail of relatives lost during the Nazi extermination.
The search, which took him to twelve countries on four continents, led to the small Ukrainian city where it all began and where the solution to endless mysteries awaited him. In that place, at the end of the road, the difference between the events we live and the way we tell them will be revealed.
Written with the skill of a novelist and partly a memoir, reportage, mystery story and detective investigation, this true story brilliantly explores the nature of time, memory, family and history. Colossal book, epic breath and a true editorial revelation, The sunken it tells us what is shipwrecked, and what returns to the surface, with the passage of time.
