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100 1 $aMendelsohn, Daniel Adam,$d1960-
245 10 $aWaiting for the barbarians :$bessays from the classics to pop culture /$cby Daniel Mendelsohn.
260 $aNew York :$bNew York Review Books,$cc2012.
300 $axiv, 423 p. ;$c22 cm.
500 $a"The New York review collection."
505 00 $tSpectacles. The wizard$r(James Cameron's$tAvatar) ;$tTruth force at the Met$r(Philip Glass's$tSatyagraha) ;$tWhy she fell$r(Julie Taymor's$tSpider-man) ;$tThe dream director$r(Aleksandr Sokurov's$tThe sun) ;$tThe mad men account (Mad men) ;$tUnsinkable (why we can't let go of the Titanic) --$tClassica. Battle lines$r(Stephen Mitchell's$tIliad) ;$tIn search of Sappho$r(Anne Carson's$tIf not, winter) ;$tArms and the man (the Landmark Herodotus) ;$tThe strange music of Horace$r(J.D. McClatchy's$tHorace, the odes) ;$tOscar Wilde, classics scholar ;$tEpic endeavors (three novels on the classics) --$tCreative writing. After Waterloo$r(Stendhal's$tCharterhouse of Parma) ;$tHeroine addict (the novels of$rTheodor Fontane) ;$tRebel rebel (the poems of$rArthur Rimbaud) ;$tThe Spanish tragedy$r(Antonio Muñoz Molina's$tSepharad) ;$tIn gay and crumbling England$r(Alan Hollinghurst's$tThe stranger's child) ;$tTransgression$r(Jonathan Littell's$tThe kindly ones) --$tPrivate lives. But enough about me (the memoir craze) ;$tHis design for living$r(Noël Coward's$tLetters) ;$tOn the town$r(Leo Lerman's$tdiaries) ;$tZoned out$r(Jonathan Franzen's$tThe discomfort zone) ;$tBoys will be boys$r(Edmund White's$tCity boy) ;$tThe collector$r(Susan Sontag's$tReborn).
520 $aOver 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." Also gathered here are essays devoted to the art of fiction, from Jonathan Littell's Holocaust blockbuster "The Kindly Ones" to forgotten gems like the novels of Theodor Fontane. In a final section, "Private Lives," prefaced by Mendelsohn's"New Yorker" essay on fake memoirs, he considers the lives and work of writers as disparate as Leo Lerman, Noel Coward, and Jonathan Franzen. "Waiting for the Barbarians" once again demonstrates that Mendelsohn's "sweep as a cultural critic is as impressive as his depth."
650 0 $aCanon (Literature)
650 0 $aLiterature$xAppreciation.
650 0 $aPopular culture$xHistory$y21st century.
852 00 $bglx$hPN81$i.M514 2012