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."
这本书适合非常无聊的人读 书里对情感和环境的描写非常细致,细致到了有时让人抓狂的程度。男女主角上学的时候读的书记,某一节课的细节,某一段经历的种种。但是其实这些细节又无比重要,它们最后都指向了每个人不同的绝望,以及最后的放手。 读到最后那个YES的时候有流泪的冲...
评分#内含书中情节# #不是书评# 几乎是马不停蹄的 我想要记下些什么 读完这本书 一开始我是毫无反应的 我想那时我的理性占据了感受的大部分 但我只是稍微回想了一下里面出现的很多情节 就像拉闸放水一样的 思绪汹涌而来 甚至源头无处找寻 这就是这本书给我带来的影响——我的感性赤...
评分这是一本情节线混乱的书,婚姻关系在上一页悬而未决,下一页已完成一阵,甚至即将完蛋。 三位主人公全部处在紊乱年代,即刚刚告别大学本科,学院的脚手架被撤掉,社会生活的资本尚是零蛋的时代。 三人分别是马德琳、伦纳德、米切尔。 基本关系是:马德琳与伦纳德恋爱,同居...
评分就业情况日趋严峻的现代,为什么还会有人学文学? 2003年普利策文学奖得主杰弗里·尤金尼德斯在他的最新力作《婚变》中,不无讽刺地回答: “大部分人都只是被动选了这个专业。因为他们左脑不够发达读不成理科,因为历史太枯燥,哲学太艰涩,地质学太局限于石油开采,数学太...
评分这是一本情节线混乱的书,婚姻关系在上一页悬而未决,下一页已完成一阵,甚至即将完蛋。 三位主人公全部处在紊乱年代,即刚刚告别大学本科,学院的脚手架被撤掉,社会生活的资本尚是零蛋的时代。 三人分别是马德琳、伦纳德、米切尔。 基本关系是:马德琳与伦纳德恋爱,同居...
每況越下。越寫越沒勁。
评分很喜欢这个故事,一口气听完。作者写的很棒,语言优美,故事发展和过去发生的事情穿插得很非常流畅。人物刻画丰满,性格的形成,从小时候开始。虽然没有在故事中完全找到我自己,但是感觉非常心心相印。
评分Madeleine the English major interested in Victorian novels, Leonard the scientist/philosopher suffering from manic depression, Mitchell who struggles with spirituality doing voluntary work in India, quotes by Heidegger, Derrida and Barthes, more obscure names dropped --reasonably good leisurely reading for college students, but is there more to it?
评分三颗半,后面50%少了前半部的趣味……后半部分靠黄色情节才撑下去的嘛……
评分书架上丢了5年赶在毕业之前终于看完了。前半部分还能看得津津有味,描写棕大日常和智识生活是如何挑战自我认知,也能看出试图重构19世纪婚姻情节文学传统的努力,后半部分迅速跌落成庸俗的当代美国爱情故事,到了结尾终于又想起marriage plot的时候生硬得像在冰箱里冻了半年的鱼尾巴。
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