Marisha Pessl

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Marisha Pessl (born October 26, 1977 near Detroit ) is an American author.

Life

Pessl's father is Austrian. She studied English literature at Northwestern University and Columbia University . She then worked as a financial advisor at PricewaterhouseCoopers . In 2001 she started working on a novel about the relationship between a daughter and her father. Pessl sent her manuscript with a cover letter ("This is a debut novel that you will not read again this year"), for which she received a large advance: The Everyday Physics of Unhappiness (English: Special Topics in Calamity Physics ) was published in America in 2006 and was received almost consistently by American literary critics. It made the New York Times bestseller list and has been translated into thirty languages. The German literary criticism judged more restrained and criticized that the novel was overloaded and uneventful. For example, Felicitas von Lovenberg listed the book in the FAZ as an example of “postmodern know-it-all and quotation literature”. Georg Diez called Pessl (together with Benjamin Kunkel and Jonathan Safran Foer ) a "new American nerd". Pessl lives in New York. Her novel Night Film (2013) shows similarities to the novel Flicker (1991, German shadow lights ) by Theodore Roszak .

Works

  • Special Topics in Calamity Physics . 2006
    • The everyday physics of misfortune . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007
  • Night movie . 2013
    • The American night . From the American by Tobias Schnettler. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013
  • Neverworld Wake . 2018
    • Never world . Translated from the English by Claudia Feldmann. Carlsen Verlag, Hamburg 2019.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Review of The Everyday Physics of Unhappiness at Spiegel online
  2. ↑ cf. Pessl at Perlentaucher
  3. ↑ Georg Diez: Young authors: American Streber . In: The time . No. 41/2006 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Jenny Hoch: "We all have dark sides, right?" , Literary World , September 7, 2013, p. 3
personal data
SURNAME Pessl, Marisha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American author
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH near Detroit