The American writer and literary critic Daniel Mendelsohn has won numerous awards including the National Book Critics Circle in 2006, the French 2007 prix Médicis for foreign literature and the French Book of the Year prize (given by Lire magazine) for his book The Lost. His latest works are An Odyssey: a Father, a Son and an Epic (2017) and Three Rings (2020). He is professor of classical literature at Bard College, and a contributor to the New York Review of Books.
For his introduction to Structure, he wove together links between Isabelle Boccon-Gibod’s work and his own family history. It comes as no surprise that a writer such as Daniel Mendelsohn would be so moved by these portraits. It can clearly be stated here that literature is a photograph without images, and photography, a fiction without words.
