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When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate <i>Odyssey</i> 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.
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Une Odyssée, Daniel Adam Mendelsohn
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2019
- Einband
- (Paperback)
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- Titel
- Une Odyssée
- Untertitel
- Un père, un fils, une épopée
- Sprache
- Französisch
- Autor*innen
- Daniel Adam Mendelsohn
- Verlag
- J'ai Lu
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2019
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 480
- ISBN10
- 2290164763
- ISBN13
- 9782290164761
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Sachbücher, Belletristik, Biografien, Familie, Klassiker, Autobiografien & Memoiren, Biographien, Mythologie, Reisen, Griechenland, Über Bücher
- Beschreibung
- When eighty-one-year-old Jay Mendelsohn decides to enroll in the undergraduate <i>Odyssey</i> 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.