This volume of eight essays written by French scholars analyzes Daniel Mendelsohns first three volumes of nonfiction The Elusive Embrace 1999 The Lost 2006 and An Odyssey 2017 as well as an illustrated interview 2019 in which Mendelsohn tackles various aspects of his work as a literary and cultural critic as a professor of classical literature as a translator and as a memoirist. The essays discussing The Elusive Embrace 1999 argue that in addition to offering a subtle reflection on sexual identi