Andre Dubus

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Andre Dubus II (* 11. August 1936 in Lake Charles , Louisiana ; † 24. February 1999 in Haverhill , Massachusetts ) (debate (English): Dub-YOOSE) was an American writer who primarily for his short stories became famous .

education

Andre Dubus grew up in a middle-class southern family in his native Lake Charles. He attended the Christian Brothers' School Roman Catholic High School in Lafayette , Louisiana, and cited his Catholic faith as a lifelong source of strong compassion for others.

He studied journalism and English, and in 1958 received a bachelor's degree in English from McNeese State College , Lafayette. He then went to the army for five years from 1958 to 1963, where he reached the rank of captain in the Marine Corps . He began writing short stories at the age of 19 and became a full-time writer after retiring from the army in 1963. During this time he studied in the Iowa Writer's Workshop and received a Masters degree from the University of Iowa in 1965 . In 1966 he accepted a teaching position at Bradford College in Massachusetts, which he held until 1984.

In 1958 he married Patricia Lowe, with whom he had four children over the next five years. Among them was his son Andre Dubus III , who was to become famous as a writer himself. Dubus was good friends with the writer Elmore Leonard .

Blows of fate

In 1986 Dubus was married to his third wife and had his sixth child on the way. One day Dubus stopped on the street outside Boston to help motorcyclists, brother and sister, who had been injured in an accident. He was hit by a car that killed his brother and seriously injured Dubus on both legs. The sister could be saved because Dubus pushed her out of the way. Dubus' left leg had to be amputated above the knee, the other remained unusable, leaving him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. The difficult time with many operations made him depressed. The marriage to his third wife also fell apart. It took several years before he could accept that he was no longer - in his words - "bipedal" and before he began to write again.

After his accident, Kurt Vonnegut , John Updike, and John Irving held a literary fundraiser to raise money for his hospital bills. Dubus resumed writing, and in gratitude for the help of his colleagues, held free workshops to support local writers.

Dubus carried a gun for 13 years . He got the gun after a woman he loved was raped. In 1985, he had a dramatic event in which he nearly shot a man in a drunken argument outside a bar in Tuscaloosa , Alabama . After his accident, he saw the need to carry a gun more than ever - not so much to protect others, but now to himself. But he did not want to take on the grief he would feel if he shot someone and so he decided in 1990 to put down the gun.

Literary focus

He has lived in Haverhill, Massachusetts since 1966 and many of his books are set in the Merrimack Valley north of Boston . Although Dubus wrote an early novel, The Lieutenant (1967), which was highly regarded by critics and readers and he later wrote another novel, Voices from the Moon (1984), which was published as a single book, his most important contributions to literature are his shorter work. Throughout his career he devoted himself to the form of the short story. In addition to fiction, Dubus wrote two respected books of autobiographical essays. He processed the accident, its consequences and other key moments in his life in his work Meditations from a Movable Chair (1998).

Literary style

As an ex-marine turned writer, he had a rough shell with a soft core, which is what his work became known for. His stories are often about pain, tragedy, violence, flawed characters with surprising levels of compassion and kindness. His Catholic faith sometimes appears explicitly in his work or indirectly shapes it through themes of salvation and grace. When asked how he would describe his writing style, he replied: "Catholic."

His personal strokes of fate of a private and health nature always flowed into his work. His disability influenced the change in his work as an author. In retrospect he wrote in an interview in 1996: "My physical condition increased my empathy and freed me from my fear of disability and unhappiness." When asked whether he had become a better writer after the accident, he replied: "I hope it. That would be a blessing. "

The Village Voice compared his work with that of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov .

bibliography

  • The Lieutenant , Roman. Dell. 1967. (English)
  • Separate flights , stories. David R. Godine Publisher. 1975. (English) ISBN 0-87923-122-X .
  • Adultery and Other Choices , short stories. 1977. (German adultery and others ). Rowohlt Verlag, Hamburg 1988, ISBN 3-498-01262-2 .
  • Finding a Girl in America , 10 short stories, 1 novella. David R. Godine Publisher. 1980. (English) ISBN 0-87923-311-7 .
  • The Times Are Never So Bad , 8 short stories, 1 novella. David R. Godine Publisher. 1983. (English) ISBN 0-87923-459-8 .
  • Voices from the Moon , Roman. David R. Godine Publisher. 1984. (German voices from the moon ). Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-353-00364-9 .
  • The Last Worthless Evening , 4 short stories, 2 stories. David R. Godine Publisher. 1986. (English) ISBN 0-87923-642-6 .
  • Selected stories , stories. 1988. New edition Vintage Books, 1995. (English) ISBN 0-679-76730-4 .
  • Broken Vessels , Essays. David R. Godine Publisher. 1991.
  • Dancing After Hours , short stories. AA button. 1996. (German dance at a late hour ). Rowohlt Verlag, 2000, ISBN 3-498-01306-8 .
  • Meditations from a Moveable Chair , essays. Stud. 1998. (English) ISBN 0-679-43108-X .
  • In the Bedroom , short stories. Vintage. 2002. (English) ISBN 978-1-4000-3077-4 .

Movies

Several of his stories have been turned into films:

  • Indipendent short film Delivering (1993)
  • The film In the Bedroom (2001) is based on the story The Killings . The film was a hit at the Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for five Academy Awards.
  • The film We Do not Live Here more (English. We Do not Live Here Anymore ) (2004) is based on the stories we do not live here longer and Adultery .
  • In 1992 Dubus took part in the documentary "Literary Visions".

Awards

  • In 1976 he was awarded the Guggenheim Scholarship .
  • In 1988 his book Selected Stories was published and he won the MacArthur Award .
  • 1988 Jean Stein Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
  • 1991 PEN / Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction
  • In 1992 he won the Pulitzer Prize for second place with his work "Broken Vessels"
  • In 1996 he won the $ 30,000 Rea Award for the Short Story .
  • In 1997 his book "Dancing After Hours" made it into the final selection of the National Book Critics Circle Award. As a result, he gained greater prominence.
  • He was inducted into the Haverhill, Massachusetts Citizens Hall of Fame .

Web links

Individual evidence

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  28. ↑ Haverhill Citizens Hall of Fame. Haverhill Public Library, accessed October 26, 2019 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME Dubus, Andre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Lake Charles , Louisiana
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1999
Place of death Haverhill , Massachusetts