Jeffrey Eugenides Interview: The Excitement of Writing
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- čas přidán 5. 12. 2012
- Interview with Jeffrey Eugenides, who finds it much harder to write short stories than long novels. Also he reflects upon the different expectations towards intellectuals in Europe and the United States.
Jeffrey Eugenides (born 1960) has become an internationally acclaimed writer through his novels The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex and The Marriage Plot. For Middlesex, he received the Pulitzer Price for fiction in 2003. In the interview Eugenides states, that even though he is attracted to writing short stories, he finds this literary form more challenging than writing long novels. In addition Eugenides admits, that even though the success of his books has made it much easier for him to live as a writer, he strives to keep himself in conditions, that remind him of his early years as an author. Thus in the late 1990s he moved to Berlin, where he could live and work incognito and concentrate on writing his novel Middelsex. Spending five years in the German capital, Eugenides recognized a huge difference concerning the role of the intellectual in Europe versus the US, where writers hardly are asked to comment on current affairs as for example the American led war in Iraq. The excerpts read by Jeffrey Eugenides are from his novel The Marriage Plot published in 2011.
Jeffrey Eugenides was interviewed by Marc-Christoph Wagner.
Camera: Troels Kahl and Martin Kogi
Produced by: Martin Kogi and Marc-Christoph Wagner, 2012
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He writes so beautifully. I hate putting people on pedestals, but his writing is just so wonderful.
I agree, some passages stop me dead. Mystified how he can come up with an accurate beautiful discription of sometimes something mundane. Easily my favorite writer. I always feel calmer after reading his stuff
He is an ecstatic, hilarious, deeply watchful and compassionate writer. I can’t believe he comes up with these insanely believable worlds.
Writing is an act of freedom, an act of genuine rebellion and he definitely fits these statements. He definitely grasps the spirit of the Greek Rebetiko. Chapeau l’artiste
I'm so exited and I just can't hide it.
Wonderful
Awesome!
I love him.
He’s one of the best writers of our generation - I wish I could reread the marriage plot for the first time again 😭🫶🏻
Screen vs language ? Can literature survive in the era of internet ? Although i am very optimistic person but i think internet is the biggest threat to reading tendency....
*excitement
Some of these close-ups are REALLY close lol
post script: The writing of exCitement.
I agree.
Spelling is so important, especially in titles. Too many people corrupt the English language as it is. You'd think that writers, and even want-to-be's would at least try.