Hailed for its searing emotional insights, and for the astonishing originality with which it weaves together personal history, cultural essay, and readings of classical texts by Sophocles, Ovid, Euripides, and Sappho, The Elusive Embrace is a profound exploration of the mysteries of identity.It is also a meditation in which the author uses his own divided life to investigate the "rich conflictedness of things," the double lives all of us lead.
Daniel Mendelsohn recalls the deceptively quiet suburb where he grew up, torn between his mathematician father's pursuit of scientific truth and the exquisite lies spun by his Orthodox Jewish grandfather; the streets of manhattan's newest "gay ghetto," where "desire for love" competes with "love of desire;" and the quiet moonlit house where a close friend's small son teaches him the meaning of fatherhood.And, finally, in a neglected Jewish cemetery, the author uncovers afamily secret that reveals the universal need for storytelling, for inventing myths of the self.The book that Hilton Als calls "equal to Whitman's 'Song of Myself,'" The Elusive Embrace marks a dazzling literary debut.
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門德爾鬆從自己的名字裏解齣一條古希臘語法結構，論此境他方，現下彼時，主語賓語，在凝視與被凝視、欲望與被渴求間探索不定形態的身份認同。讀前幾章心下有些許矛盾，覺得似乎他寫彆人的故事更有意思，興許因為人在直麵自己時極難做到全然真誠，尤其當你知曉此番直麵必將置於他者目光之下，往往會生齣一股「閤理化」經曆行為的衝動。但這沒有必要。不過往下讀漸入佳境，最後兩章塑造金身（傢族神話）再打破、為身份認同探索寫下注解，作傢拿手好戲是也，蠻好看！
评分When all the li(n)es converged… heartbreaking, telling & daunting. ‘bout gay life, family history, classics & desirability. In need of a bit patience before everything (ironically) makes sense in the end (or does it). Sometimes stories are myths or merely lies. True. But some parts I don’t quite agree w/.
评分門德爾鬆從自己的名字裏解齣一條古希臘語法結構，論此境他方，現下彼時，主語賓語，在凝視與被凝視、欲望與被渴求間探索不定形態的身份認同。讀前幾章心下有些許矛盾，覺得似乎他寫彆人的故事更有意思，興許因為人在直麵自己時極難做到全然真誠，尤其當你知曉此番直麵必將置於他者目光之下，往往會生齣一股「閤理化」經曆行為的衝動。但這沒有必要。不過往下讀漸入佳境，最後兩章塑造金身（傢族神話）再打破、為身份認同探索寫下注解，作傢拿手好戲是也，蠻好看！
评分When all the li(n)es converged… heartbreaking, telling & daunting. ‘bout gay life, family history, classics & desirability. In need of a bit patience before everything (ironically) makes sense in the end (or does it). Sometimes stories are myths or merely lies. True. But some parts I don’t quite agree w/.
评分When all the li(n)es converged… heartbreaking, telling & daunting. ‘bout gay life, family history, classics & desirability. In need of a bit patience before everything (ironically) makes sense in the end (or does it). Sometimes stories are myths or merely lies. True. But some parts I don’t quite agree w/.
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