{"product_id":"three-rings-daniel-mendelsohn-9781681376394","title":"Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate","description":"\u003cb\u003eA memoir, biography, work of history, and literary criticism all in one, this moving book tells the story of three exiled writers--Erich Auerbach, Fran輟is F駭elon, and W. G. Sebald--and their relationship with the classics, from \u003ci\u003eHomer\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eMimesis.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a genre-defying book hailed as \"exquisite\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"spectacular\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e), the 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, \u003ci\u003eThree Rings\u003c\/i\u003e 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, \u003ci\u003eMimesis\u003c\/i\u003e, in Istanbul; Fran輟is F駭elon, the seventeenth-century French archbishop whose ingenious sequel to the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Adventures of Telemachus\u003c\/i\u003e--a veiled critique of the Sun King and the best-selling book in Europe for a 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIntertwined with these tales of exile and artistic crisis is an account of Mendelsohn's struggle to write two of his own books--a family saga of the Holocaust and a memoir about reading the \u003ci\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/i\u003e with his elderly father--that are haunted by tales of oppression and wandering. As \u003ci\u003eThree Rings\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Mendelsohn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1681376393\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681376394\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/26\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 4.80w x 0.40d","brand":"Daniel Mendelsohn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43996544434431,"sku":"9781681376394","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b32caecd-4d44-4077-8d60-9c458145f79f.jpg?v=1683342300","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/three-rings-daniel-mendelsohn-9781681376394","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}