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The Elusive Embrace
Desire and the Riddle of Identity
Book • 1999
Daniel Mendelsohn's 'The Elusive Embrace: Desire and the Riddle of Identity' examines the interplay between desire and identity using close readings of literary texts and psychoanalytic theory.
The book investigates how narratives shape and complicate human longing and self‑understanding, drawing on a range of authors and theoretical frameworks.
Mendelsohn combines personal reflection with scholarly analysis to illuminate how desire influences storytelling and subjectivity.
The work engages with questions of memory, family, and the construction of self in literature.
It reflects Mendelsohn's broader interest in how narratives mediate truth and personal history.
The book investigates how narratives shape and complicate human longing and self‑understanding, drawing on a range of authors and theoretical frameworks.
Mendelsohn combines personal reflection with scholarly analysis to illuminate how desire influences storytelling and subjectivity.
The work engages with questions of memory, family, and the construction of self in literature.
It reflects Mendelsohn's broader interest in how narratives mediate truth and personal history.
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Johanna Hanink
Translating the Odyssey, with Daniel Mendelsohn
