{"product_id":"three-rings-a-tale-of-exile-narrative-and-fate-9781681376394","title":"Three Rings: A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Daniel Mendelsohn\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Literary Figures\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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, François Fénelon, 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 \u003c\/p\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; François Fénelon, 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.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46316793200791,"sku":"9781681376394","price":1116.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781681376394.webp?v=1767710176","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/three-rings-a-tale-of-exile-narrative-and-fate-9781681376394","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}