Interview with Daniel Mendelsohn (III): The USA, Europe and the Jews

We see in the books of Daniel Mendelsohn how the  convulsions of geopolitics forever intrude on the intimate lives of his characters. How does Mendelsohn...

By Déborah Bucchi et Adrien Zirah

Interview with Daniel Mendelsohn (II): Philology, identity and exile

Daniel Mendelsohn's writing style is a skilful blend of personal narratives and evocations of classical literary works; of the intimate and the intellectual. What is...

By Déborah Bucchi et Adrien Zirah

Interview with Daniel Mendelsohn (I): In Search of the “Genre Called Mendelsohn”

Daniel Mendelsohn's books are associated with the genre of 'autofiction'. However, the richness of the subtexts that irrigate them, coming from the Ancient Greek and...

By Déborah Bucchi et Adrien Zirah

Daniel Mendelsohn: The Persistence of the Myths, Woes and Lives of Europe

Starting this week, K. is publishing in several installments a long interview with Daniel Mendelsohn. The great American writer, who became famous with The Lost,...

By Déborah Bucchi et Adrien Zirah