Tres anillos

Following the publication and success of An Odyssey, Daniel Mendelsohn once again challenges literary genres and explores the bridges that connect the work of three great creators. Combining memoirs, biography, history and literary criticism, Three Rings traces the life and work of three writers who were driven into exile and wrote taking refuge in the classics, whose experiences we can connect today despite borders, languages ??and centuries that separate them: Erich Auerbach, François Fénelon and WG Sebald. Braiding these stories of exile Mendelsohn tells us of his struggle to write two of his books: The Sunken, the story of his family during the Holocaust, which took him to twelve countries on four continents; and An Odyssey, a memoir about reading the Odyssey with his old father, marked by various trips. Tres Rings pushes the reader to reconsider the relationship between narrative and history, between art and life, in addition to dealing with issues such as the Jewish diaspora or the destruction of works of art over time.