Edward Abbey

Edward Paul Abbey (born January 29, 1927 in Indiana , Pennsylvania , † March 14, 1989 in Tucson , Arizona ) was an American naturalist, philosopher and writer who dedicated his work to the southwestern United States. His best-known works are Desert Solitaire and the novel The Monkey Wrench Gang , which inspired radical environmental activists, among others. a. establishing Earth First! and the term " Monkeywrenching ".

Works

Novels

• 1954: Jonathan Troy , ISBN 1-131-40684-2 .
• 1956: The Brave Cowboy , ISBN 0-8263-0448-6 .
• 1962: Fire on the Mountain , ISBN 0-8263-0457-5 .
• 1971: Black Sun , ISBN 0-88496-167-2 .
• 1975: The Monkey Wrench Gang , ISBN 0-397-01084-2 . Illustrated by Robert Crumb

German edition: The universal wrench band . German by Sabine Hedinger . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1987, ISBN 3-499-15895-7 . Relaunched as The Monkey Wrench Gang . Walde + Graf, Zurich 2010, ISBN 978-3-03774-015-6 .

• 1980: Good News , ISBN 0-525-11583-8 .
• 1988: The Fool's Progress , ISBN 0-8050-0921-3 .
• 1989: Hayduke Lives , ISBN 0-316-00411-1 .
• 1994: Earth Apples: The Poetry of Edward Abbey , ISBN 0-312-11265-3 .

Non-fiction

• 1968: Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness , ISBN 0-8165-1057-1 .

German edition: The loneliness of the desert. A time in the wild. German by Dirk Höfer. Edited by Judith Schalansky. Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95757-355-1 .

• 1970: Appalachian Wilderness
• 1971: Slickrock , ISBN 0-87156-051-8 .
• 1973: Cactus Country
• 1977: The Journey Home , ISBN 0-525-13753-X .
• 1977: The Hidden Canyon
• 1978: Das Kaktusland , Dt. by Bernd Rullkötter, ISBN 90-6182-297-1 .
• 1979: Abbey's Road , ISBN 0-525-05006-X .
• 1979: Desert Images
• 1982: Down the River (with Henry Thoreau & Other Friends) , ISBN 0-525-09524-1 .
• 1984: In Praise of Mountain Lions
• 1984: Beyond the Wall , ISBN 0-03-069299-7 .
• 1988: One Life at a Time, Please , ISBN 0-8050-0602-8 .
• 1989: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness: Notes from a Secret Journal
• 1994: Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey, 1951-1989 , ISBN 0-316-00415-4 .

Letters

• 2006: Cactus Chronicles published by Orion Magazine , Jul – Aug 2006 (no longer active).
• 2006: Postcards from Ed (book) | Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast , ISBN 1-57131-284-6 .

Anthologies

• 1984: Slumgullion Stew: To Edward Abbey Reader
• 1984: The Best of Edward Abbey
• 1995: The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader

Quotes

• " In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time."

• " Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners."

• " The tragedy of modern war is that the young men who fight each other — instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals."

• " Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top ."

Web links

Wikiquote: Edward Abbey  - Quotes

• Literature by and about Edward Abbey in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Edward Abbey at perlentaucher.de
• abbeyweb - information about Edward Abbey, and his books (English)
• Ecodefense: A Field Guide To Monkeywrenching - Foreword by Edward Abbey ( Memento of February 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Direct action takes up some aspects of Ecodefense in German.