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...
評分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...
評分 評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...
評分Marriage Plot did not color the time it populated in my life. Dogeared pages number less than 5, meaning things that I want to potentially revisit - is worthy of revisting - is low. It's a breezy read, which was not expected since so lauded (said to belong ...
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?
评分讀書的過程中,覺得作者把所有的一切都寫的味同嚼蠟,讓我不禁想,莫非生活本就是這樣?整本書讀畢之後,卻又會不時地迴味。這些都令我不解。
评分斷斷續續看瞭兩三個月,前半部分很慢,後半部分較快。同Freedom一樣的三角關係,精神病Leonard、愛情失意尋求上帝的Mitchell和未婚女子Madeleine。除瞭Romance主綫外,還有維多利亞時期文學、語言學、心理學、宗教學、生物學等元素大雜燴。但結尾部分頗弱,再多
评分Don't want to spend time to finish it. Strong beginning, but then it becomes gross, ugh. Dislike stories about sick people. Too pretentious.
评分很喜歡這個故事,一口氣聽完。作者寫的很棒,語言優美,故事發展和過去發生的事情穿插得很非常流暢。人物刻畫豐滿,性格的形成,從小時候開始。雖然沒有在故事中完全找到我自己,但是感覺非常心心相印。
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