Three Rings

Resumen del libro

Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France's best foreign book of the year. In this genre-defying book, best-selling memoirist and critic Daniel Mendelsohn explores the mysterious links between the randomness of the lives we lead and the artfulness of the stories we tell. Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, Three Rings weaves together the stories of three exiled writers who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own-works that pondered the nature of narrative itself.

Erich Auerbach, the Jewish philologist who fled Hitler's Germany and wrote his classic study of Western literature, Mimesis, in Istanbul... Francois Fenelon, the seventeenth-century French archbishop whose ingenious sequel to the Odyssey,The Adventures of Telemachus-a veiled critique of the Sun King and the best-selling book in Europe for one hundred years-resulted in his banishment... and the German novelist W.

G. Sebald, self-exiled to England, whose distinctively meandering narratives explore Odyssean themes of displacement, nostalgia, and separation from home. Intertwined with these tales of exile and artistic crisis is an account of Mendelsohn's struggles to write two of his own books-a family saga of the Holocaust and a memoir about reading the Odyssey with his elderly father-that are haunted by tales of oppression and wandering.

As Three Rings moves to its startling conclusion, a climactic revelation about the way in which the lives of its three heroes were linked across borders, languages, and centuries forces the reader to reconsider the relationship between narrative and history, art and life.

Biografía del autor

Daniel Mendelsohn es profesor y periodista, y sus artículos, ensayos, críticas y traducciones han aparecido en publicaciones tan prestigiosas como The New Yorker, The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Esquire y The Paris Review. Es autor, entre otras, de Los hundidos, merecedora de los más prestigiosos premios y traducida a las principales lenguas europeas.<br> <br> Sobre Los hundidos han dicho: Daniel Mendelsohn ha escrito una obra profundamente conmovedora acerca del pasado x{0026} x0201C;perdidox{0026} x0201D; de una familia que recuerda la rica prosa de Proust y los textos elusivos de W. G. Sebald. Un logro digno de toda consideración. JOYCE CAROL OATES Épica y personal, meditativa y llena de suspense, trágica y a ratos hilarante, Los hundidos es un libro maravilloso. JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Un tapiz vasto y ricamente coloreado, una narración muy personal, rigurosa en su búsqueda de la verdad y tierna y precisa a la vez. ELIEWIESEL