Daniel Mendelsohn : Three Rings — A Tale of Exile, Narrative, and Fate
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The Last Lot's Wife
In your kavafi lecture, you said the role of the poet is to recuperate those things lost to time. And in speaking about three rings, you said that rings are a particularly good form for writers dealing with what is lost. This feels like it enters the book in many ways. Aurbach creating a model of europe as he's absented from it. There's the question of racin's representation of the temple in one of his theatrical productions,. Most poignantly, you visit the models of many different synagogues in the jewish diaspra which i presume are, in reality, gone um or maybe the they're there ind the active jewish
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