Jay Parini
Jay Parini (born April 2, 1948 in Pittston , Pennsylvania ) is an American literary critic , university professor and writer , best known for his novel The Last Station .
Life
After attending school, he first studied at Lafayette College , where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1970 . He completed a subsequent postgraduate study of philosophy at the University of St Andrews in 1972 with a Bachelor in Philosophy and also received a Philosophiae Doctor (Ph.D.) from the University of St Andrews in 1975 .
He then became a professor at Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire) and taught there until 1982. In 1982 he accepted a professorship at Middlebury College in Vermont and has taught there ever since. As a literary critic, he dealt in particular with the works of John Steinbeck such as The Journey with Charley: In Search of America , William Chomsky , Harold Brodkey , WS Merwin ,
In addition to his teaching activity, Parini began a career as a writer. Some of his novels have also appeared in German translation, such as Dark Passages ('Benjamin's Crossing', 2000) and A Russian Summer: Tolstojs last year ('The Last Station', 2008). Gyrðir Elíasson wrote a translation of The Last Station in Icelandic under the title Endastöðin: Síðasta æviár Tolstojs (2002).
In 2009, A Russian Summer , which is about the last year of life of the Russian writer Lev Nikolajewitsch Tolstoy , was filmed under the title of the same name by Michael Hoffman with Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren in the leading roles .
His other publications include:
- John Steinbeck. A Biography , Henry Holt & Co., New York 1995
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature: Academic novels – The essay in America , Volume 1, University of Michigan, ISBN 0-19-516724-4
- The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English , Oxford University Press, Oxford 1996 (editor)
Fonts
- Every Time a Friend Succeeds Something Inside Me Dies: The Life of Gore Vidal . Little Brown, 2015
Web links
- Literature by and about Jay Parini in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jay Parini in the nndb (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Parini, Jay |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer and literary critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pittston |