A gentle reminder that, if after seeing the movie you want to read the book, the translation by @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social is the best there is. #Homer #Odyssey
Daniel Mendelsohn
@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social
Author (The Lost; An Odyssey; Three Rings; The Elusive Embrace); Critic; translator (#Cavafy, Homer’s #Odyssey); #Classics; Editor-at-Large @nybooks; Director @silversfound 🇫🇷🇩🇪🇮🇹🇬🇷🇳🇴🏳️🌈
“The only side of Odysseus—and indeed of the Odyssey—that you get in Nolan’s film is the negative one.” —@danielmendelsohn.bsky.social
Artful Weaving | Daniel Mendelsohn
The most authentic thing about Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey is its densely braided narrative, but its tormented hero sounds like the heroes of Christopher Nolan movies.
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As Much As You Can, by Constantine Cavafy And even if you cannot make your life the way you want it, this much, at least, try to do as much as you can: don't cheapen it with too much intercourse with society... Translation @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social soundcloud.com/yahia-lababi... #poetry
As Much As You Can, by Constantine Cavafy - read by Yahia Lababidi
As Much As You Can, by Constantine Cavafy And even if you cannot make your life the way you want it, this much, at least, try to do as much as you can: don't cheapen it with too much intercou
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“Je crains que Trump ne cherche à provoquer une crise qui lui permette de suspendre ces élections. Ça, c’est le but à mon avis.” Dixit @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social via @didierjacob.bsky.social
Daniel Mendelsohn : « Saint-Simon aurait été parfait pour raconter l’affaire Epstein »
Alors que paraît un livre d’entretiens autour de son œuvre et de son parcours, l’auteur du magistral « les Disparus » parle de la situation politique en Amérique, de l’antisémitisme global et de sa pa...
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Ami(e)s parisien(ne)s! Le premier de mes conférences au @cdf1530 (dans la série « Athènes et Jérusalem : #Littérature, #Histoire, Écriture»), aura lieu lundi 2 mars: « Mémoire, Histoire, Les disparus: Écrire la #Shoah pour la prochaine génération » www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
Mémoire, Histoire, Les Disparus : écrire la Shoah pour la prochaine génération | Collège de France
En s'appuyant sur son expérience de recherche, d'écriture, puis de tournée de ses « Disparus » à travers le monde, Daniel Mendelsohn explore la signification de la Shoah en tant qu'événement à la fois historique et littéraire, à mesure que le temps passe et que l'événement appartient à une nouvelle génération d'écrivains et de lecteurs, qui n'ont plus de contact direct avec l'événement lui-même. De manière un peu provocatrice, il suggère que l’injonction « ne jamais oublier » est, par essence, anti-littéraire : la littérature – parce qu’elle forge un récit vaste et gérable à partir d’événements historiques pour que les cultures puissent l’utiliser – doit « oublier » les histoires individuelles, lissant et façonnant des souvenirs particuliers en paraboles dont nous avons besoin pour vivre.
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Schließung des Instituts für Archäologie an der HU-Berlin
Die Archäologie gehört seit fast 200 Jahren zur wissenschaftlichen Tradition der Humboldt-Universität. Ihre Schließung bedeutet den Abbruch einer gewachsenen Forschungstradition und eine dauerhafte Sc...
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Quel plaisir de lire @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social en conversation et en français ! #danielmendelsohn #littérature #traduction #lettresclassiques
Another #MosseLecture to share with you on this #MosseWednesday! Join us at @remarquenyu.bsky.social ✨ this Friday ✨ for "On Exile: A Conversation" with Hisham Matar and @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social 🗓️ February 13 🕙 5 PM 📍60 5th Ave 8th floor go.wisc.edu/k23i74 #EuropeanstudiesatUWMadison
Ravi de (re)partager le programme de mes conférences au College de France en mars—une série intitulée « Athènes et Jérusalem: Littérature, Histoire, Écriture » Delighted to share the program for my March lectures at the Collège de France next month: www.college-de-france.fr/fr/agenda/co...
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Lastly, some poetry! I didn't read much this year but @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social's new verse translation of The Odyssey made up for it. Surely the best translation currently in print.
This Thursday @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social at American University @theimmigrationlab.bsky.social
American University School of Public Affairs@au-spa.bsky.social · 9mo agoWhat can a 3,000-year-old story teach us about migration, identity, and belonging? Join author and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn for The Odyssey and Its Migrations: Displacement, Wandering, Identity, a modern look at Homer’s timeless epic. 📅 Thurs, Nov. 6 | RSVP: https://bit.ly/3X56mRw
The Odyssey: "the right book in the right hands of the right person" @jackewilson.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social #greatbooks
The 25 Greatest Books of All Times Series: #24 The Odyssey
Check out Episode 720 in which Jacke takes a special look at The Odyssey, which ranks #24 on his list of the 25 Greatest Books of All Time. The story continues to …
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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)
Delighted to announce my forthcoming online #literature seminars for @nybooks, “Drama Queens: Literary Heroines from Homer to Tennessee Williams.” We begin next month w a six-part seminar on the #Odyssey! @penguinclassics.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/events/drama...
Drama Queens with Daniel Mendelsohn
Join Daniel Mendelsohn for a four-part live webinar series. About this series The figure of the tragic heroine—suffering, abject, grandiose, vengeful, self-sacrificing, murderous, noble, seductive—has...
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Delighted to announce my forthcoming online #literature seminars for @nybooks, “Drama Queens: Literary Heroines from Homer to Tennessee Williams.” We begin next month w a six-part seminar on the #Odyssey! @penguinclassics.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social www.nybooks.com/events/drama...
Drama Queens with Daniel Mendelsohn
Join Daniel Mendelsohn for a four-part live webinar series. About this series The figure of the tragic heroine—suffering, abject, grandiose, vengeful, self-sacrificing, murderous, noble, seductive—has...
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Thank god for @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social's appearance in the piece
Very proud to announce this year’s winners of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation’s Silvers Grants for Work in Progress: silversfoundation.org/2025-grant-r...
2025 Grant Recipients - The Robert B. Silvers Foundation
2025 Recipients Mark Chiusano Mark Chiusano is a journalist and the author of The Fabulist: The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing, and Very American Legend of George Santos, and the story collection...
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I spoke to The Times (UK) about my hopes and fears for the #ChristopherNolan #Odyssey film: www.thetimes.com/culture/film...
The next Oppenheimer? Christopher Nolan’s new film is selling out already
A year before its release, tickets have been snapped up for screenings of The Odyssey with Matt Damon, Tom Holland and Zendaya
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Ok I just gotta say that “Giri/Haji” is the wackiest thing I’ve seen in a long long time…which isn’t to say I’m not enjoying it. But mamma mia!
Listen to the latest episode of the podcast with @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social — plus archival audio of Lewis H. Lapham talking about his childhood reading of Moby-Dick. www.laphamsquarterly.org/content/epis...
Episode 7: Daniel Mendelsohn and Lewis H. Lapham
The latest episode of The World in Time.
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The Lost: a search for six of six million by @danielmendelsohn.bsky.social has stayed with me for months since I happened across it at the library. #BookSky 📚
LL💄✨♿️@lovelylipstick.bsky.social · last yr.What’s your favourite book of 2025 so far? It doesn’t have to be a new release, you just have to have read it this year.
If the Democrats can’t make hay out of this repellent Bill, relentlessly explaining to the people what has been done to them, they don’t deserve to go on existing as a party.
“Viewed from the heights of reason, all life looks like some malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.” —Goethe (quoted by Thomas Mann in “Goethe’s Career As a Man of Letters,” 1932)