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Jeffrey Eugenides

Datum narození: 8. březen 1960
Další jména: جفری ایوژنایدس

Jeffrey Kent Eugenides je americký romanopisec a povídkář. Knižně debutoval roku 1993 románem Sebevraždy panen, který o šest let později zfilmovala režisérka Sofia Coppola. Dosud největšího úspěchu dosáhl Eugenides se svým následujícím románem Hermafrodit , který byl oceněn Pulitzerovou cenou a nominován na celou řadu dalších ocenění.

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romanopisec, povídkář, učitel 1960

„V jeho očích bylo tolik lásky, že tu nebylo možné hledat pravdu“

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romanopisec, povídkář, učitel 1960

„Spisovatelé by měli při psaní knih předstírat, že píší nejlepší dopis svého života pro svého nejchytřejšího kamaráda, což jim pomůže vyhnout se přílišnému vysvětlování.“

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romanopisec, povídkář, učitel 1960

„Mohli byste se dohadovat, jak dlouho se mi podaří to držet v tajnosti, ale nakonec to nezáleželo na mně. Ostatně tak to u velkých věcí chodí. Těmi velkými věcmi myslím narození a smrt. A taky lásku, stejně jako to, co nám láska odkáže ještě před naším narozením.“

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Novelist, short story writer, teacher 1960

„Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.“Middlesex

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Novelist, short story writer, teacher 1960

„It was one of those humid days when the atmosphere gets confused. Sitting on the porch, you could feel it: the air wishing it was water.“Middlesex

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Novelist, short story writer, teacher 1960

„She held herself very straight, like Audrey Hepburn, whom all women idolize and men never think about.“The Virgin Suicides

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Novelist, short story writer, teacher 1960

„Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality. When she jumped, she probably thought she'd fly“The Virgin Suicides

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Novelist, short story writer, teacher 1960

„Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic train-car constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." I'd like to show how "intimations of mortality brought on by aging family members" connects with "the hatred of mirrors that begins in middle age." I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.“Middlesex

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Novelist, short story writer, teacher 1960

„It didn't matter in the end how old they had been, or that they were girls, but only that we had loved them, and that they hadn't heard us calling, still do not hear us, up here in the tree house, with our thinning hair and soft bellies, calling them out of those rooms where they went to be alone for all time, alone in suicide, which is deeper than death, and where we will never find the pieces to put them back together.“The Virgin Suicides

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Novelist, short story writer, teacher 1960

„In the end, it wasn't death that surprised her but the stubbornness of life.“The Virgin Suicides

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Novelist, short story writer, teacher 1960

„We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.“The Virgin Suicides

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Novelist, short story writer, teacher 1960

„We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.“The Virgin Suicides

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„Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.“The Marriage Plot

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Novelist, short story writer, teacher 1960

„I don’t know what you’re feeling. I won’t even pretend.“The Virgin Suicides

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Novelist, short story writer, teacher 1960

„Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Within five minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin, he said, "What are you doing here, honey? You're not even old enough to know how bad life gets."

And it was then Cecilia gave orally what was to be her only form of suicide note, and a useless one at that, because she was going to live: "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a thirteen-year-old girl.“The Virgin Suicides

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Novelist, short story writer, teacher 1960

„In the end we had the pieces of the puzzle, but no matter how we put them together, gaps remained, oddly shaped emptinesses mapped by what surrounded them, like countries we couldn't name.“The Virgin Suicides

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