Odyssey with My Father

An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and An Epic

★ The legendary epic of a heroic father and son in ancient Greece intersects with the ordinary lives of contemporary fathers and sons★ When a mathematician father is welcomed into the literature class of a classics professor, a close reading of the 12,110-line epic poem about wandering and returning home★ His belated understanding of his father is also the understanding and misunderstanding of our father by all of us★ That long and tortuous journey will eventually reach the end of all storiesThe literature and life of Daniel Mendelsohn, a contemporary American classicist and winner of the Nona Balakian Outstanding Commentary Award△Shortlist for the Bailey Gifford Nonfiction Award△Kirkus Reviews Best Memoir of the Year△Newsday Book of the Year〰〰〰 〰〰〰 〰〰〰
Which side is the real me?
The Odyssey asks this question, and how many faces can a person have?
That year, my father sat in on my Odyssey study class, and afterward we took a sightseeing tour following in Odysseus’ footsteps.
From this I understand that the answer may be surprising.
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Mendelssohn's 81-year-old mathematician father sat in on his son's undergraduate course on The Odyssey, carefully reading the 12,110-line epic poem about "wandering and returning home." Later, the two of them took an Odyssey-themed cruise together. Throughout this "Odyssey" of text and space, he was able to understand his father anew again and again.
The Odyssey is the story of a hero who, after years of wandering, finally returns home after going through untold hardships; it is also the story of a child who grows up and gradually gets to know his father in the process of searching for him.
"Odyssey with My Father" juxtaposes the legendary epic of the ancient Greek heroic father and son in "The Odyssey" with the ordinary life of a contemporary father and son. In the overlap of text and reality, the two pairs of fathers and sons reflect each other.
In the vortex of time and space, the story of father, son and epic slowly unfolds.

2022-09-01

上海人民出版社

Century Wenjing

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