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16 de oct. de 2012 · 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.
4 de may. de 2023 · Waiting for the barbarians : essays on the classics and pop culture. by. Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam, 1960-. Publication date. 2014. Topics. Canon (Literature), Literature -- Appreciation, Popular culture -- 21st century. Publisher. New York : New York Review Books.
Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture. Daniel Adam Mendelsohn. New York Review of Books, 2012 - Literary Collections - 423 pages.
Amazon.com: Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture: 9781590176078: Mendelsohn, Daniel: Libros
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.
Mendelsohn is a trained classics scholar, from which much of his intellectual authority still derives: witness his brilliantly illuminating, lucid essays on Homer, Sappho, Herodotus and Horace. He writes about pop culture with equal enthusiasm.
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.
