I'm collapsing all my blogs into Motley Kamuka
I'm collapsing all my blogs into Motley Kamuka.
An Odyssey by Daniel Mendelsohn
I absolutely love this book: An Odyssey . It perfectly weaves the story of the Odyssey, with teaching it in a classroom, with Mendelsohn's father attending. He writes about the art of story telling, meanwhile weaving a fascinating story. Also there is a travel aspect to it. You know that feeling that you're caught in the spell of a book--when you come out of it, you still feel the haze. I love looking up things, like Jacques Demy and Louise Brooks, butterfly bombs and oenophilia. I've reserved Demy's best movie, The Umbrellas of Charbourg, at the library. I didn't look up as many words like I did in Courtesans and Fishcakes . He tells the story in a modern form, like The Song of Achilles , explaining the cultural differences that side track us. This book is non-fiction, but it is about the Odyssey so it is about story telling. School of Homer, Agios Athanasios
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