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Title: Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture
Author: MENDELSOHN DANIEL
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 15/03/2014
Imprint: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active
“Over the past decade and a half, Daniel Mendelsohn s reviews for The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review have earned him a reputation as one of the greatest critics of our time (Poets & Writers). In Waiting for the Barbarians, he brings together twenty-four of his recent essays each one glinting with verve and sparkle, acumen and passion on a wide range of subjects, from Avatar to the poems of Arthur Rimbaud, from our inexhaustible fascination with the Titanic to Susan Sontag s Journals. Trained as a classicist, author of two internationally best-selling memoirs, Mendelsohn moves easily from penetrating considerations of the ways in which the classics continue to make themselves felt in contemporary life and letters (Greek myth in the Spider-Man musical, Anne Carson s translations of Sappho) to trenchant takes on pop spectacles none more explosively controversial than his dissection of Mad Men.
ISBN: 9781590177136
Weight: 367g
Pages: 432