Celebrated Author Daniel Mendelsohn at Wilton Library on June 12 In Conversation with Max Gabrielson
Celebrated author, critic, and classicist Daniel Mendelsohn will join Wilton High School’s beloved classics teacher Max Gabrielson in conversation at Wilton Library on Thursday, June 12, at 7 p.m., to discuss Mendelsohn’s new translation of Homer’s Odyssey and other works. Don’t miss this singular, extraordinary literary event.
With this new translation, Mendelsohn brings Homer’s great epic to vividly poetic new life. Widely known for his essays on classical literature and culture in The New Yorker and other major publications, Mendelsohn offers a line-for-line rendering of The Odyssey that is both engrossing as poetry and rigorously faithful to its ancient source. Eschewing the streamlining and modernizing tendencies of many recent translations, he artfully preserves the epic’s formal qualities, restoring to Homer’s masterwork its original grandeur.
A magnificent feat of translation, it has been hailed by classicists and poets alike as a “momentous achievement,” “thrilling,” “rich and rhythmical,” “superb,” “mesmerizing,” and “searingly faithful—yet absolutely original.”
Elm Street Books will be on site to sell copies of Daniel Mendelsohn’s books, which he will sign. A portion of the proceeds will benefit Wilton Library.
Registration is required. To register, visit www.wiltonlibrary.org.
*Photo credit Dan Mendelsohn