An essay collection with this title, which includes takedowns of Mad Men and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark among other "essays from the classics to pop culture," was written by noted UVA classics alum Daniel Mendelsohn. The protagonist of a novel with this title repeatedly dreams of a faceless girl building a snow castle. In that novel of this title, the protagonist passes out giving oil rubs to a naked, scarred girl he keeps in his house. The line "They were, those people, a kind of solution" concludes a poem of this title shared by a novel pitting the Magistrate against Colonel Joll. For 10 points, give this title of a Constantin Cavafy poe
An essay collection with this title, which includes takedowns of Mad Men and Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark among other "essays from the classics to pop culture," was written by noted UVA classics alum Daniel Mendelsohn. The protagonist of a novel with this title repeatedly dreams of a faceless girl building a snow castle. In that novel of this title, the protagonist passes out giving oil rubs to a naked, scarred girl he keeps in his house. The line "They were, those people, a kind of solution" concludes a poem of this title shared by a novel pitting the Magistrate against Colonel Joll. For 10 points, give this title of a Constantin Cavafy poem later used for a novel by J. M. Coetzee.
An essay collection with this title, which includes takedowns of Mad Men and Spider-Man:
Waiting for the Barbarians