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 this return to the classroom is his "one last chance" to learn the great literature he'd neglected in his youth--and, even more...
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 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.
门德尔松精研古希腊文学，译有《C. P. 卡瓦菲斯诗歌全集》（C. P. Cavafy: Complete Poems），著有《难以触及的拥抱：欲望与身份之谜》（The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity）、《与父亲的奥德赛》（An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and An Epic）、《失落者：追寻六百万中的六人》（The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million）、《如此美丽，如此脆弱》（How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken）、...
门德尔松精研古希腊文学，译有《C. P. 卡瓦菲斯诗歌全集》（C. P. Cavafy: Complete Poems），著有《难以触及的拥抱：欲望与身份之谜》（The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity）、《与父亲的奥德赛》（An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and An Epic）、《失落者：追寻六百万中的六人》（The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million）、《如此美丽，如此脆弱》（How Beautiful It Is And How Easily It Can Be Broken）、《等待野蛮人：从古典学到流行文化》（Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture）、《如何阅读经典》（How to Read the Classics）等著作；作品亦常见刊于《纽约客》《纽约书评》等杂志。
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)
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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