Jeffrey Kent Eugenides is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and short story writer of Greek and Irish extraction.
Eugenides was born in Detroit, Michigan, of Greek and Irish descent. He attended Grosse Pointe's private University Liggett School. He took his undergraduate degree at Brown University, graduating in 1983. He later earned an M.A. in Creative Writing from Stanford University.
In 1986 he received the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Nicholl Fellowship for his story "Here Comes Winston, Full of the Holy Spirit". His 1993 novel, The Virgin Suicides, gained mainstream interest with the 1999 film adaptation directed by Sofia Coppola. The novel was reissued in 2009.
Eugenides is reluctant to appear in public or disclose details about his private life, except through Michigan-area book signings in which he details the influence of Detroit and his high-school experiences on his writings. He has said that he has been haunted by the decline of Detroit.
Jeffrey Eugenides lives in Princeton, New Jersey with his wife, the photographer and sculptor Karen Yamauchi, and their daughter. In the fall of 2007, Eugenides joined the faculty of Princeton University's Program in Creative Writing.
His 2002 novel, Middlesex, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction and the Ambassador Book Award. Part of it was set in Berlin, Germany, where Eugenides lived from 1999 to 2004, but it was chiefly concerned with the Greek-American immigrant experience in the United States, against the rise and fall of Detroit. It explores the experience of the intersexed in the USA. Eugenides has also published short stories.
Eugenides is the editor of the collection of short stories titled My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead. The proceeds of the collection go to the writing center 826 Chicago, established to encourage young people's writing.
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In Eugenides' first novel since the Pulitzer Prize-winning Middlesex (2002), English major and devotee of classic literature Madeleine Hanna is a senior at Reagan-era Brown University. Only when curiosity gets the best of her does she belly up to Semiotics 211, a bastion of postmodern liberalism, and meet handsome, brilliant, mysterious Leonard Bankhead. Completing a triangle is Madeleine's friend Mitchell, a clear-eyed religious-studies student who believes himself her true intended. Eugenides' drama unfolds over the next year or so. His characteristically deliberate, researched realization of place and personality serve him well, and he strikes perfectly tuned chords by referring to works ranging from Barthes' Lovers' Discourse to Bemelmans' Madeline books for children. The remarkably à propos title refers to the subject of Madeleine's honors thesis, which is the Western novel's doing and undoing, in that, upon the demise, circa 1900, of the marriage plot, the novel 'didn't mean much anymore,' according to Madeleine's professor and, perhaps, Eugenides. With this tightly, immaculately self-contained tale set upon pillars at once imposing and of dollhouse scale, namely, academia ('College wasn't like the real world,' Madeleine notes) and the emotions of the youngest of twentysomethings, Eugenides realizes the novel whose dismantling his characters examine."
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评分此书评为补记,重读会重写、添加 2018.1.1 看到一些评论国内和国外的,说这本书只有非常闲的没事时候看,还有说对女主角塑造不细腻,啰嗦无关紧要的细节描写太多,说作者卖弄学术……但是对于我来说,这真的是一本让我沉浸其中的小说,上面说的问题确实存在,但是有种什么魔力...
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评分按时间顺序读过了《The Virgin Suicides》《Middlesex》《The Marriage Plot》三部尤金尼德斯的长篇小说,按我个人的喜好排序就是《The Virgin Suicides》>《The Marriage Plot》>《Middlesex》备受好评的中性我对其却最没啥感情,果然喜欢和好是不能硬生生地挂钩的。 不得不...
对维多利亚婚姻文学的致敬与反讽, 对恋爱婚姻关系的解构。这本书实在是太过文艺,书里人张口闭口都是符号学大师和费里尼,读着没有工作前景的liberal arts major,用文艺和故作深沉滋养着自己精神上的病征。前大半部简直令人惊异,与《荒人手记》类似,充斥了各式各样的信息,仿佛人们并不生活在自己的一日三餐中,而是在思想、感性、知识间跃动和穿梭一样,好似吃了迷幻剂的多动症患儿。读书的时候总是惊异于作者的细腻,为什么能够这样充沛地感受和描述那种自我催生出来的悲剧感、痛感呢?难道作者也是个自恋而自虐的人嘛:变着法子令自己感受痛苦,期待着痛苦,又在痛苦中肝肠寸断,又在这种肝肠寸断中感觉自己实在是爱得深切。“我真是一个伟大的人啊,背负着这样巨石般沉重的爱。”Kitsch而自恋的人这样叹息道。
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评分one of the worst books that i have ever read. Please don't waste ur time on it
评分lol really enjoyed it
评分前半部分写布朗的让人感同身受,把藤校文科生刻画得很真实,但后半部分就有点无聊了。大概就是个大学毕业生寻找自我的故事
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