When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn t...
When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate Odyssey seminar his son teaches at Bard College, the two find themselves on an adventure as profoundly emotional as it is intellectual. For Jay, a retired research scientist who sees the world through a mathematician's unforgiving eyes, this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn the great literature he'd neglected in his youth--and, even more, a final opportunity to more fully understand his son, a writer and classicist. But through the sometimes uncomfortable months that the two men explore Homer's great work together--first in the classroom, where Jay persistently challenges his son's interpretations, and then during a surprise-filled Mediterranean journey retracing Odysseus's famous voyages--it becomes clear that Daniel has much to learn, too: Jay's responses to both the text and the travels gradually uncover long-buried secrets that allow the son to understand his difficult father at last. As this intricately woven memoir builds to its wrenching climax, Mendelsohn's narrative comes to echo the Odyssey itself, with its timeless themes of deception and recognition, marriage and children, the pleasures of travel and the meaning of home. Rich with literary and emotional insight, An Odyssey is a renowned author-scholar's most triumphant entwining yet of personal narrative and literary exploration.
DANIEL MENDELSOHN is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. His books include the international best seller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and many other honors; a memoir, The Elusive Embrace, a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; a translation...
DANIEL MENDELSOHN is a frequent contributor to The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. His books include the international best seller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and many other honors; a memoir, The Elusive Embrace, a New York Times Notable Book and a Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year; a translation, with commentary, of the complete poems of C. P. Cavafy; and two collections of essays, How Beautiful It Is and How Easily It Can Be Broken and Waiting for the Barbarians. He teaches literature at Bard College.
A father makes his son out of his flesh and out of his mind and then shaps him with his ambitions and dreams, with his cruelties and failures, too. But a son, although he is of his father, cannot know his father totally, because the father precedes him; his father has always already lived so much more than the son has, so that the son can never catch up, can never know everything. No wonder the Greeks thought that few sons are the equals of their fathers; that most fall short, all too few surpass them. It's not about value; it's about knowledge. The father knows the son whole, but the son can never know his father. (查看原文)
Granted I’m not very well read, but this is hands down one of the best books I’ve ever read. The language is delicious. Everything just flowed. So much love bleeding though the cool and collected tone...Granted I’m not very well read, but this is hands down one of the best books I’ve ever read. The language is delicious. Everything just flowed. So much love bleeding though the cool and collected tone. Made me wonder, what could one do to be able to write like that? Will re-read after I’ve read odyssey and will do the re-reading with a paperback. (展开)
抓住《奥德赛》里一对夫妻两对父子三代人的故事，围绕《奥德赛》的课堂讨论与实地巡游是作者与父亲深入对话的契机。我原以为作者会挖掘出父亲多么传奇的人生故事，是我想当然了，父亲平凡普通但过去并不为作者所知的事才是更真实的。最喜欢关于第24卷奥德修斯与父亲莱尔忒斯相认情节的课堂讨论留下的问题：Why is it that the only truly unimaginable lie is the one...抓住《奥德赛》里一对夫妻两对父子三代人的故事，围绕《奥德赛》的课堂讨论与实地巡游是作者与父亲深入对话的契机。我原以为作者会挖掘出父亲多么传奇的人生故事，是我想当然了，父亲平凡普通但过去并不为作者所知的事才是更真实的。最喜欢关于第24卷奥德修斯与父亲莱尔忒斯相认情节的课堂讨论留下的问题：Why is it that the only truly unimaginable lie is the one that a son might tell to his father? 小说最后作者自己悟出答案：The father knows the son whole, but the son can never know the father. 作者追寻父亲的过程，本身成了一场永不抵达的奥德赛。(展开)
经常关注《纽约书评》及《纽约客》的读者，想必不会对Daniel Mendelsohn感到陌生。多年来笔耕不缀，他所撰写的书评、随笔常见于欧美各大文艺评论刊物；身为研究古希腊及古罗马文化的学者，Mendelsohn也曾在大学任教，同时，他还是希腊诗人卡瓦菲斯的译者。 AN ODYSSEY: A Fathe...
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0 有用 … 2022-11-05 14:51:53 美国
作者在教奥德赛的时候我也在上大一新生必修的思辩课。我被分配到的课程是启蒙运动，那也是我第一次读亚里士多德、培根、康德和卢梭。这种seminar形式的课是我大学里最宝贵的回忆了，周二的夜晚在哥特式建筑里和同学们进行着没有对错的讨论，被教授们引导着考虑自己没想过的论点。
0 有用 QuietAmbassa 2022-10-23 12:37:18 美国
Granted I’m not very well read, but this is hands down one of the best books I’ve ever read. The language is delicious. Everything just flowed. So much love bleeding though the cool and collected tone... Granted I’m not very well read, but this is hands down one of the best books I’ve ever read. The language is delicious. Everything just flowed. So much love bleeding though the cool and collected tone. Made me wonder, what could one do to be able to write like that? Will re-read after I’ve read odyssey and will do the re-reading with a paperback. (展开)
2 有用 prophecccy 2019-12-24 00:56:15
写了一大篇没保存忽然没电了，可能上边那位幻化成surface的无所不能的宙斯的孩子雅典娜觉得我写得太差了。深呼吸。别发狂。所以，这是我读过的最好的一本教辅。门先生是教授的汪洋大海之中的一颗钻石。｜考虑过近大远小效应以后依然可以肯定这是今年最喜欢的一本书。
0 有用 朱尔赫斯 2021-10-25 16:06:15
A DOOR—— 非虚构的力量就在这两个词里。明年初，文景译本见。
0 有用 夭夭 2022-05-16 09:26:04
抓住《奥德赛》里一对夫妻两对父子三代人的故事，围绕《奥德赛》的课堂讨论与实地巡游是作者与父亲深入对话的契机。我原以为作者会挖掘出父亲多么传奇的人生故事，是我想当然了，父亲平凡普通但过去并不为作者所知的事才是更真实的。最喜欢关于第24卷奥德修斯与父亲莱尔忒斯相认情节的课堂讨论留下的问题：Why is it that the only truly unimaginable lie is the one... 抓住《奥德赛》里一对夫妻两对父子三代人的故事，围绕《奥德赛》的课堂讨论与实地巡游是作者与父亲深入对话的契机。我原以为作者会挖掘出父亲多么传奇的人生故事，是我想当然了，父亲平凡普通但过去并不为作者所知的事才是更真实的。最喜欢关于第24卷奥德修斯与父亲莱尔忒斯相认情节的课堂讨论留下的问题：Why is it that the only truly unimaginable lie is the one that a son might tell to his father? 小说最后作者自己悟出答案：The father knows the son whole, but the son can never know the father. 作者追寻父亲的过程，本身成了一场永不抵达的奥德赛。 (展开)
0 有用 DawnInLalaland 2024-04-06 17:38:10 江苏
特别动人。
0 有用 知未 2024-03-27 12:57:41 美国
基本上是在做陶的同时听完的，可惜生词有点多，本身对于奥德赛故事也不熟，所以并没有完全理解。仍然感受到是本非常真挚诚恳的书，现实的旅行和奥德赛的旅程交织，课堂内外过去与现在穿插，叙事结构也很有巧思。
0 有用 景罔两 2024-03-06 10:55:47 湖南
骗子（出轨）、爱哭、全靠神帮忙，作者他爹对奥德修斯的吐槽三连，简单直接，跟我们小时候看电视爱问这个人是好人还是坏人一样，但并不是不重要，而是很重要的问题。最后一点，为什么奥德修斯离不开雅典娜，作者没有怎么回应，而只是借此谈起父亲的性格，挺可惜的
0 有用 莫望 2024-02-29 16:25:44 上海
和父亲的和解来的那么迟，又是那么及时。读懂父辈和母辈不是一件那么容易的事，这段旅途有长有短，有涓涓流动的，也有半路崩俎的。只希望我们每个人都有机会，在现实中完成这场奥德赛吧。
0 有用 NoNo 2024-02-11 09:02:36 美国
同样的经典，有人读出了秩序和谐，有人读出了杂乱混沌。相较于《奥德赛》本身，更喜欢后人对其的再塑造：奥德修斯厌倦了伊萨卡的陆地生活，妻子的忠贞，儿子的顺从；比起回家，英雄更想要的是一场没有尽头的旅行。目标与想象的不同，旅程比终点更重要。 课堂上《奥德赛》的文本细读/地中海的邮轮之旅/与父亲的最后时光：一场无语伦比的阅读体验。抽象的父子关系，史诗比遗迹更真实，现实中的平凡父子关系与奥德赛的古典故事交相... 同样的经典，有人读出了秩序和谐，有人读出了杂乱混沌。相较于《奥德赛》本身，更喜欢后人对其的再塑造：奥德修斯厌倦了伊萨卡的陆地生活，妻子的忠贞，儿子的顺从；比起回家，英雄更想要的是一场没有尽头的旅行。目标与想象的不同，旅程比终点更重要。 课堂上《奥德赛》的文本细读/地中海的邮轮之旅/与父亲的最后时光：一场无语伦比的阅读体验。抽象的父子关系，史诗比遗迹更真实，现实中的平凡父子关系与奥德赛的古典故事交相辉映，在作者的环套结构下产生了奇妙的化学反应，是单独描绘父子情所不能及的精巧动人。技艺高超的文学批评与回忆录的双线勾连，是与父亲最文艺的道别。 (展开)