Søk
Logg inn
  • Hjem

  • Kategorier

  • Lydbøker

  • E-bøker

  • For barn

  • Topplister

  • Hjelp

  • Last ned app

  • Bruk en kampanjekode

  • Løs inn gavekort

  • Prøv gratis nå
  • Logg inn
  • Språk

    🇳🇴 Norge

    • NO
    • EN

    🇧🇪 Belgique

    • FR
    • EN

    🇩🇰 Danmark

    • DK
    • EN

    🇩🇪 Deutschland

    • DE
    • EN

    🇪🇸 España

    • ES
    • EN

    🇫🇷 France

    • FR
    • EN

    🇳🇱 Nederland

    • NL
    • EN

    🇦🇹 Österreich

    • AT
    • EN

    🇨🇭 Schweiz

    • DE
    • EN

    🇫🇮 Suomi

    • FI
    • EN

    🇸🇪 Sverige

    • SE
    • EN
  1. Bøker
  2. Historie
  3. Generell historie

Les og lytt gratis i 14 dager!

Si opp abonnementet når som helst

Prøv gratis nå
0.0(0)

The Bad Boy of Athens

Over the past three decades, Daniel Mendelsohn’s essays and reviews have earned him a reputation as ‘our most irresistible literary critic’ (New York Times). This striking new collection exemplifies the way in which Mendelsohn – a classicist by training – uses the classics as a lens to think about urgent contemporary debates. There is much to surprise here. Mendelsohn invokes the automatons featured in Homer’s epics to help explain the AI films Ex Machina and Her, and perceives how Ted Hughes sought redemption by translating a play of Euripides (the ‘bad boy of Athens’) about a wayward husband whose wife returns from the dead. There are essays on Sappho’s sexuality and the feminism of Game of Thrones; on how Virgil’s Aeneid prefigures post-World War II history and why we are still obsessed with the Titanic; on Patrick Leigh Fermor’s final journey, Karl Ove Knausgaard’s autofiction and the plays of Tom Stoppard, Tennessee Williams, and Noël Coward. The collection ends with a poignant account of the author’s boyhood correspondence with the historical novelist Mary Renault, which inspired his ambition to become a writer. In The Bad Boy of Athens, Mendelsohn provokes and dazzles with erudition, emotion and tart wit while his essays dance across eras, cultures and genres. This is a provocative collection which sees today’s master of popular criticism using the ancient past to reach into the very heart of modern culture.

‘Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace … He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have ever been told.’ SEBASTIAN BARRY


Forfatter:

  • Daniel Mendelsohn

Oppleser:

  • Alister Austin

Format:

  • Lydbok

Varighet:

  • 13 h 17 min

Språk:

engelsk

Kategorier:

  • Historie
  • Generell historie

Mer av Daniel Mendelsohn

Hopp over listen
  1. En odyssé : en far, en son och ett epos

    Daniel Mendelsohn

    book
  2. Three Rings

    Daniel Mendelsohn

    audiobook
  3. An Odyssey: A Father, A Son and an Epic : SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2017

    Daniel Mendelsohn

    audiobook

Andre har også lest

Hopp over listen
  1. Habeas corpus : roman

    Kjartan Fløgstad

    audiobook
  2. Ukraina : grenselandet mellom øst og vest

    Morten Strand

    audiobook
  3. 1945 : hat, hevn, håp

    Alf R. Jacobsen

    audiobook
  4. Ukraina : historien, menneskene, krigen

    Arve Hansen

    audiobook
  5. Museum for mordere og redningsmenn : roman

    Simon Stranger

    audiobook
  6. Quislings koffert : i fotsporene til en forræder

    Trude Lorentzen

    audiobook
  7. Alt bra? : en mors og datters historie om ufrivillig skolefravær, psykisk sykdom og det å være pårørende

    Ellen Frøysaa, Sofie Frøysaa

    audiobook
  8. De uverdige

    Roy Jacobsen

    audiobook
  9. Maskiner som tenker

    Inga Strümke

    audiobook
  10. Midtøsten på 200 sider : fra 1820 til i dag

    Odd Karsten Tveit

    audiobook
  11. 1000 Words : A Guide to Staying Creative, Focused, and Productive All-Year Round

    audiobook
  12. Three Rings : A Tale of Exile, Narrative and Fate

    audiobook

Hjelp og kontakt


Om oss

  • Historien vår
  • Karriere
  • Presse
  • Tilgjengelighet
  • Bli partner
  • Investorkontakt
  • Instagram
  • Facebook

Utforsk

  • Kategorier
  • Lydbøker
  • E-bøker
  • Magasiner
  • For barn
  • Topplister

Populære kategorier

  • Krim
  • Biografier og essays
  • Romaner
  • Feelgood og romantikk
  • Personlig utvikling
  • Barnebøker
  • Sanne historier
  • Søvn og avslapning

Nextory

Copyright © 2025 Nextory AB

Personvernerklæring · Vilkår ·
Utmerket4.3 av 5