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Jeffrey Eugenides – amerykański pisarz grecko-irlandzkiego pochodzenia.

Ukończył Uniwersytet Browna, gdzie zdobył tytuł magistra języka angielskiego oraz kreatywnego pisania na Uniwersytecie Stanforda. Jego debiutancka powieść Samobójczynie odniosła sukces wkrótce po ukazaniu się w 1993. Przetłumaczono ją na piętnaście języków oraz zekranizowano. Za powieść Middlesex otrzymał nagrodę Pulitzera. Różne prace Eugenidesa ukazały się w The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, Best American Short Stories, The Gettysburg Review oraz Granta's "Best of Young American Novelists."

Jeffrey Eugenides był stypendystą prestiżowej Fundacji Guggenheima oraz National Endowment for the Arts, laureatem Whiting Writers Award, oraz Henry D. Vursell Memorial Award ustanowionej przez Amerykańską Akademię Sztuki i Literatury. Przez ostatnich kilka lat był nauczycielem akademickim Berliner Kunstlerprogramm of the DAAD oraz Amerykańskiej Akademii w Berlinie. Eugenides mieszka obecnie w Chicago ze swoją żoną i córką. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. Marzec 1960  •  Natępne imiona جفری ایوژنایدس
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Jeffrey Eugenides: Cytaty po angielsku

“You used to be able to tell a person's nationality by the face. Immigration ended that. Next you discerned nationality via the footwear. Globalization ended that.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka Middlesex

Źródło: Middlesex

“To start with, look at all the books.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka The Marriage Plot

Źródło: The Marriage Plot

“Who are you, anyway?
-Just someone who knows, from personal experience, how attractive it can be to think you can save somebody else by loving them.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka The Marriage Plot

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“Planning is for the world's great cities, for Paris, London, and Rome, for cities dedicated, at some level, to culture. Detroit, on the other hand, was an American city and therefore dedicated to money, and so design had given way to expediency.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka Middlesex

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“The television replaced the sound of conversation that was missing from my grandparents' lives.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka Middlesex

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“But, like anyone in love, Madeleine believed that her own relationship was different from every other relationship, immune from typical problems.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka The Marriage Plot

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“There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka The Marriage Plot

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“This can't be true but I remember it.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka Middlesex

Źródło: Middlesex

“They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived—bound, in other words, for life.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka The Virgin Suicides

Źródło: The Virgin Suicides

“The window was still open,” Mr Lisbon said. “I don’t think we’d ever remembered to shut it. It was all clear to me. I knew I had to close that window or else she’d go on jumping out of it forever.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka The Virgin Suicides

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“She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka The Marriage Plot

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“Lux spent the ride dialing the radio for her favorite song. "It makes me crazy," she said. "You know they're playing it somewhere, but you have to find it.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka The Virgin Suicides

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“We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka Middlesex

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“There were some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka The Marriage Plot

Wariant: There are some books that reached through the noise of life to grab you by the collar and speak only of the truest things.
Źródło: The Marriage Plot

“It took courage to let things fall apart so beautifully.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka The Marriage Plot

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“Dieting fooled you into thinking you could control your life.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka The Marriage Plot

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“Paris was a museum displaying exactly itself.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka The Marriage Plot

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“Now all the mute objects of my life seem to tell my story, to stretch back in time, if I look closely enough.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka Middlesex

Źródło: Middlesex

“And in some of the houses, people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered. What really mattered in life, what gave it weight, was death.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka Middlesex

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“All sixteen mentioned her jutting ribs, the insubstantiality of her thighs, and one, who went up to the roof with Lux during a warm winter rain, told us how the basins of her collarbones collected water.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka The Virgin Suicides

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“It was like autumn, looking at her. it was like driving up north to see the colors.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka Middlesex

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“Virgin suicide
What was that she cried?
No use in stayin'
On this holocaust ride
She gave me her cherry
She's my virgin suicide”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka The Virgin Suicides

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“What if you had faith and performed good works, what if you died and went to heaven, and what if all the people you met there were people you didn't like?”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka The Marriage Plot

Źródło: The Marriage Plot

“She kept her face to the floor, moving in her personal oblivion, her sunflower eyes fixed on the predicament of her life we would never understand.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka The Virgin Suicides

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“We listened to them, but it was clear they'd received too much therapy to know the truth.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka The Virgin Suicides

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“Pregnancy humbles husbands. After an initial rush of male pride they quickly recognise the minor role that nature had assigned them in the drama of reproduction.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka Middlesex

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“When you stood between somebody you loved and death, it was hard to be awake and it was hard to sleep.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka The Marriage Plot

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“Every letter was a love letter. Of course, as love letters went, this one could have been better. It was not very promising, for instance, that Madeleine claimed not to want to see him for the next half-century.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka The Marriage Plot

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“If Mitchell was ever going to become a good Christian, he would have to stop disliking people so intensely.”

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Jeffrey Eugenides książka The Marriage Plot

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