Dave Eggers

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Dave Eggers (2018)

Dave Eggers (born March 12, 1970 in Boston , Massachusetts ) is an American writer , screenwriter and editor of various literary magazines .

He is considered one of the most influential writers of our time and a harsh critic of US President Trump .

Life

Eggers was born in Boston to lawyer John K. Eggers and teacher Heidi McSweeney Eggers. During his childhood, the family moved to Lake Forest , Illinois , where Eggers grew up. After graduating from Lake Forest High School , where Vince Vaughn was his classmate, he studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism in 2002 . He founded the magazines Might and McSweeneys and a publishing house of the same name. In 2000, he published his most famous work, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (dt .: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius ), which became a bestseller and for the Pulitzer Prize nomination. In 2002 he published his novel You Shall Know Our Velocity (German: You will (still) notice how fast we are ) and in 2004 the collection of short stories How We Are Hungry (German: How hungry we are ).

Together with Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss , he is the editor of 2004 as part of the American presidential election campaign , published The Future Dictionary of America , a collection of political essays by writers such as Paul Auster , Stephen King , Richard Powers and Joyce Carol Oates .

Along with Michael Goldberg Eggers wrote the screenplay for Where the Wild Things Are (dt. Where the Wild Things Are ), the 2009 released film by Spike Jonze . The film is an adaptation of the children's book of the same name by Maurice Sendak . Based on the script version, the book Bei den wilden Kerlen was published , in which Eggers expanded the 333-word picture story into an all-age novel. He also wrote the script for the movie Away We Go - Auf nach Irgendwo by Sam Mendes , which also opened in theaters in 2009, in collaboration with Vendela Vida . In October 2016, together with Jordan Kurland, he initiated the political music project 30 Days, 30 Songs as a protest against Donald Trump . Eggers was involved in other film adaptations of his works as a screenwriter.

Dave Eggers is since 2003 Vendela Vida married and lives with his wife and two children in the San Francisco Bay Area , the area around the Bay of San Francisco .

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A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000) is based on a true story, the life of the writer himself, but contains numerous fictional elements, so that the book is ultimately a hybrid of a novel and an autobiography . Egger's situation is discussed after his parents died from cancer, through which the 22-year-old suddenly has sole responsibility for his little brother.

The book is characterized by a particularly ironic attitude towards the occurring events and the reader, as well as by a variety of unusual stylistic elements. In the beginning, the author offers suggestions and suggestions for correct and entertaining reading, and even admits that some chapters of the book could well be turned over. The American paperback edition also contains a partial edition of an appendix Mistakes We Knew We Were Making , in which Eggers corrected or elaborated on some of the statements in the novel. In literary studies, connections between A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and the novel Infinite Jest ( 1996 ) by David Foster Wallace are pointed out. There are both contextual and thematic overlaps (including criticism of the postmodern use of irony).

You Shall Know Our Velocity (2002) is Eggers' first purely fictional novel. Here, too, death becomes the trigger for the actual story. If Eggers and his brother were the protagonists before, the novel now revolves around the friends will and hand. You Shall Know Our Velocity was published in a revised version in 2003.

Zeitoun (2011) is about the true story of an American-Syrian family. After Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005 , Abdulrahman Zeitoun drives through the flooded streets to help. He is arrested and sent to prison for no reason. It took weeks for his family to find out about this and are fighting for his release.

In 2013, Eggers published The Circle, a novel that in 2014 was at the top of the bestseller lists as Der Circle a few weeks after its publication.

The novel The Monk of Mocha , published in 2018, is again a semi-documentary work based on the life story of the American Mokhtar Alkhanshali, a young man with Yemeni roots. Eggers portrays Alkhanshali's difficult path to becoming a coffee producer, who has made it his business to produce first-class coffee again in the former homeland of the Arab coffee trade - mocha was the hub . On October 26, 2018, he published the children's novel Die Mitternachtstür .

In 2020 the novel The Greatest Captain of All Time , a satire on Donald Trump , was published in German translation . Eggers sees Trump as "a truly crazy man, an absolutely unstable lunatic".

Awards

Works

Novels, short stories

  • A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. Novel. 2000.
    • A heartbreaking work of dazzling genius: a true story. German by Leonie von Reppert-Bismarck and Thomas Rütten. Droemer Knaur, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-462-03629-7 .
  • You Shall Know Our Velocity. Novel. 2002.
    • You will (still) notice how fast we are. German by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann. Droemer Knaur, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-462-03734-X .
  • Jokes Told in Heaven about Babies. (under the pseudonym Lucy Thomas). 2003.
  • Short short stories. 2004.
  • How We Are Hungry. Stories. 2005.
    • How hungry we are. German by Klaus Timmermann and Ulrike Wasel. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-462-03615-7 .
  • What is the what. Novel. 2007.
    • Gone far: the life of Valentino Achak Deng. German by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-462-04033-3 .
  • The Wild Things. Novel. 2008.
    • With the wild guys. German by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2009, ISBN 978-3-462-04176-7 .
  • Zeitoun. 2009.
    • Zeitoun. German by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-462-04299-3 .
  • A Hologram For The King. Novel. 2012.
  • The Circle . Novel. 2013.
  • Visitants. Travel essays 2014
  • Your Fathers, Where Are They? And the Prophets, Do They Live Forever? Alfred A. Knopf McSweeney's, New York City 2015, ISBN 978-1-101-87419-6 .
    • Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever? German by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2015, ISBN 978-3-462-04772-1 .
  • Heroes Of The Frontier. Novel. 2016.
    • To the limit , German by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2017, ISBN 978-3462049466 .
  • The Monk of Mokha . Hamish Hamilton, 2018
  • The parade. Novel. Knopf, 2019, ISBN 978-0-525-65530-5 .
    • The parade , German by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2020, ISBN 978-3-462-05357-9 .
  • The Captain and the Glory , 2019
    • The greatest captain of all time , German by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2020, ISBN 978-3-462-00010-8 .

Scripts

literature

  • Lukas Hoffmann: Postirony: The Nonfictional Literature of David Foster Wallace and Dave Eggers , transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-3661-1 .

Web links

Commons : Dave Eggers  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ zeit.de: "We live in a barbaric idiotocracy"
  2. ↑ Four prize-winning authors taking part in U. of I. series that begins Feb. 8 news.uiuc.edu , January 23, 2007, accessed on January 14, 2020
  3. ↑ 1,000 Days, 1,000 Songs. Dave Eggers & Jordan Kurland. Retrieved February 12, 2017 .
  4. ↑ cf. about this: Stevens Burn: Infinite Jest. A reader's guide. New York 2003, p. 76.
  5. ↑ https://www.perlentaucher.de/buch/dave-eggers/zeitoun.html , accessed on January 12, 2020
  6. ^ Mission Mocha. femundo.de, November 8, 2018, accessed on February 1, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Interview with Johanna Adorján , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 22, 2020.
  8. ↑ Because of Grass: US author stays away from the award ceremony In: Weser-Kurier . April 13, 2012.
  9. ↑ Albatros Literature Prize canceled: Grass! Dave Eggers is not coming to Bremen. on: Spiegel online. April 13, 2012, last accessed March 28, 2014.
  10. ↑ Academy Members. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed January 13, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Dave Eggers: what's so funny about peace, love and Starship? , essay from the work published in the Guardian March 28, 2014, accessed March 28, 2014.
  12. ↑ Dave Eggers' new novel Von Zorn Junge Männer , a review by Katharina Granzin in the taz on May 17, 2015, accessed May 19, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Eggers, Dave
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lucy Thomas (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston , Massachusetts