He liked facts, he liked logic, liked arguments that were sound. Recently, Maclean’s spoke by phone with Mendelsohn-an award-winning memoirist, critic, translator, classics scholar and frequent contributor to The New Yorker and New York Review of Books-at his home in New York’s Hudson Valley.Ī: I always start with the fact that he was a mathematician, which structured both his intellectual and his ethical life. Structured around the form of Homer’s epic poem about fathers and sons, Daniel Mendelsohn’s new book, An Odyssey, is itself a profoundly personal but also provocatively intellectual journey. Just a year later, Jay Mendelsohn died after a fall. When Daniel Mendelsohn’s 81-year-old father, Jay Mendelsohn, a retired research scientist with some uncompromising ideas about life, decided to take his son’s first-year seminar on the Odyssey at Bard College in 2011, life began to imitate art in uncanny ways. US writer Daniel Mendelsohn poses in a library in Paris in 2007 (Pierre Verdy/AFP/Getty Images)
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