Malcolm J. Bosse

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Malcolm Joseph Bosse (born May 6, 1926 in Detroit - † May 3, 2002 in New York City ) was an American writer and university professor of English literature who wrote both youth and adult novels ( thrillers , detective novels , historical novels ), which were largely based on his many years of experience in Asia and whose basic mood was religious tolerance .

Life

Malcolm Joseph Bosse grew up in Moline , Illinois .

After studying literature at Yale University in 1950, he made his master's degree at the University of Michigan in 1956. This was followed by service with the US Navy in Vietnam , where he wrote his first novel Journey of Tao Kim Nam in 1959 . Some sources also report a service in the merchant navy in Asia . Malcom later taught J. Bosse between 1969, the year he did a Ph.D. in Literature from New York University , and in 1992 English Literature from City College of New York in Manhattan .

In the 1970s in particular, he also emerged as the commentary editor of the works of Daniel Defoe , Charles Gildon, Mary de la Rivière Manley and Jonathan Swift .

The actions of his - mostly historical - novels often take place in Asia, for example in China , Indochina or India . He is known for successful staging of fictional characters against a historically proven background and comprehensive depictions of both the historical and cultural circumstances of the time he describes. Almost all of his works have been translated into German since 1974, just as they were published in English, and have been reprinted by various publishers. For his book Ganesh or a New World ( ISBN 3423078502 ) he received the German Youth Literature Prize in 1983 in the youth book category .

Malcolm J. Bosse was married a total of three times. No details are known about the marriage and the duration of the marriage with Janet Cowan. He was married to Marie-Claude Aullas from 1969 until the divorce of unknown date. There is a child from this marriage. His last marriage to Laura L. Mack, who also had a child, lasted from 1996 until his death. He died of esophageal cancer on May 3, 2002 at the age of 75 .

plant

English
  • Journey of Tao Kim Nam, 1959
  • The Incident at Naha, 1972
  • The Man Who Loved Zoos, 1974
  • (Associate Editor) The Flowering of the Novel, 1975
  • The Seventy-nine Squares . New York: Thomas J. Crowell. 1979. ISBN 0-690-03999-9 .
  • Cave beyond Time, 1980
  • Ganesh (young adult), 1981, reissued Ordinary Magic, 1993
  • The Barracuda Gang , New York: Dutton: Lodestar Books: 1982. ISBN 0-525-66737-7 .
  • The Warlord: A Novel . New York: Simon and Schuster. 1983. ISBN 0-671-44332-1
  • Fire in Heaven New York: Simon and Schuster. 1985 ISBN 0-671-47080-9 .
  • Captives of Time, New York: Delacorte Press: 1987. ISBN 0-385-29583-9 .
  • Strangers at the Gate, 1989
  • Mister Touch, 1991
  • The Vast Memory of Love, New York: Ticknor & Fields: 1992. ISBN 0-395-62943-8 .
  • Deep Dream of the Rain Forest, 1993
  • The Examination, 1994
  • Tusk and Stone, 1995
In German translation
  • Even then in Naha . ( The incident at Naha ) detective novel. German by Klaus Prost. Rowohlt , Reinbek near Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-499-42321-9
  • To die is the first civic duty . ( The man who loved zoos ) Detective novel. German by Klaus Prost. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1976, ISBN 3-499-42394-4 ; also as Ein echter Q-Agent , published by Schröder, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-547-71459-1 in identical translation.
  • Ganesh or a new world . ( Ganesh ) From the American by Wolf Harranth, Benziger Verlag , Zurich / Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-545-33096-6
  • Die Traumhöhle ( Cave beyond time ) German by Fred Schmitz, Benziger Verlag, Zurich / Cologne 1983, ISBN 3-545-32221-1
  • A garden as big as the world . ( The seventy-nine squares ). From the American by Wolf Harranth, Benziger Verlag, Zurich / Cologne 1984, ISBN 3-545-33112-1
  • Warlord . ( The Warlord ) German by Ulrike von Puttkamer and Christian Spiel, von Schröder, Düsseldorf 1984, ISBN 3-547-71458-3 ; also published as Drachenblut and Lotusblüte , Bertelsmann Club, Gütersloh 1987.
  • Fire in the Sky ( Fire in Heaven ). German by Ulrike von Puttkamer and Christian Spiel, von Schröder, Düsseldorf 1986, ISBN 3-547-71460-5
  • Wake of the time ( Captives of time ). German by Charlotte Franke , Marion-von-Schröder-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 3-547-71461-3
  • Dalang . From the American by Marianne Schulz-Rubach, Econ Verlag , Düsseldorf / Vienna / New York 1990, ISBN 3-430-11462-4
  • In the mask of the monks . From the American by Gerhard Beckmann, Econ-Verlag, Düsseldorf a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-430-11463-2
  • The Khan . Translated from the English by Elfie Deffner, Scherz Verlag, Bern / Munich / Vienna 1995.
  • The test or the adventurous journey of the brothers Chen and Hong . ( The examination ) From the American by Lothar Schneider, Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1996, ISBN 3-446-18237-3
  • Everything under the sky . From the American by Hans Link, Hanser Verlag , Munich / Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-502-10059-4
  • The big dream of the rainforest . From the American by Marion Balkenhol, Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-596-80095-1
  • The elephant rider . ( Tusk and stone ) From the American by Ulli and Herbert Günther, Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1998, ISBN 3-446-19261-1
  • Time of Storms ( Nothing like us ). Translated from the English by Hans Link, Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-596-50721-9
as a scientific editor
  • Daniel Defoe: Memoirs of a Cavalier . Ed. Malcolm J. Bosse, New York 1972
  • Charles Gildon: The Post-Man Robb'd of His Mail: or The Packet broke open Ed. Malcom J. Bosse, New York 1972.
  • Mary de la Rivière Manley's The Secret History of Queen Zarah and the Zarazians . Ed. Malcom J. Bosse, New York 1972
  • Jonathan Swift: A Tale of a Tub. The Battle of the Books. A discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit . Ed. Malcom J. Bosse, New York 1972

Film adaptations

review

Rudolf Herfurtner wrote in 1982 about the Ganesh , which is generally praised by German religious educators : “Malcolm J. Bosse makes his pedagogical intentions clear, yet unobtrusively, to the reader. The professor of literature at New York University wants to convey three things: an understanding of a distant land, the principles of Satyagraha, Gandhi's non-violent resistance, and a gentle criticism of the behavior of American teenagers. (...) 'Ganesh' is a rather quiet book, which creates its fascination with the precise atmosphere, until finally in the third part the external tension provides drive. Even if some people are strongly idealized, Ganesh is a successful amalgamation of Eastern philosophy and way of life with environmental conflicts of the western sphere, told as a coherent story of a captivating figure of identification. "

literature

  • John L. Sutton, Jr .: The Source of Mrs. Manley's Preface to "Queen Zarah" . In: Modern Philology, Vol. 82, No. 2 (Nov., 1984), pp. 167-172 (refers to Bosses editorial work)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan Mommertz: The editor's fiction in the English-language literature of the modern age. As Ms. gedr. Berlin: dissertation.de - Verlag im Internet 2003 (licensed Munich Univ. Diss. 2000) ISBN 3-89825-582-4 .
  2. ^ Daniel Defoe: Memoirs of a Cavalier . Ed. Malcolm J. Bosse, New York 1972
  3. ↑ Charles Gildon: The Post-Man Robb'd of His Mail: or The Packet broke open Ed. Malcom J. Bosse, New York 1972.
  4. ↑ Introduction to The Adventures of Rivella, by Mary de la Rivière Manley, Garland Publishing, Inc., 1972, p. 120.
  5. ↑ Jonathan Swift: A Tale of a Tub. The Battle of the Books. A discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit . Ed. Malcom J. Bosse, New York 1972
  6. ↑ http://www.enotes.com/literary-criticism/manley-delarivier
  7. ↑ Brief presentation (Engl.)
  8. ↑ Recommended by the Religionspädagogischesn literature and media directory  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / member.multimania.de  
  9. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated June 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bis.uni-oldenburg.de
  10. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092521/
  11. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107755/
  12. ↑ Recommendation of the film and indirectly also the book by the Protestant secondary schools in Bavaria
  13. ↑ Harry Noormann, Ulrich Becker, Bernd Trocholepczy (eds.): Ecumenical workbook religious education . W. Kohlhammer Verlag, 3rd edition Stuttgart 2007, p. 277.
  14. ↑ Ganesh is very often recommended as teaching material because of its transcultural tolerance, s. a. Archived copy ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / people.tamu.edu
  15. ^ Rudolf Herfurtner : Ganesh - a gentle rebel, review. In: Die Zeit , August 6, 1982.
personal data
SURNAME Bosse, Malcolm J.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bosses, Malcolm Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 2002
Place of death New York City