Michael Brodsky

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Michael Mark Brodsky (born August 2, 1948 in New York ) is an American writer and non-fiction author in the medical field.

life and work

After graduating from the Bronx High School of Science, he earned a bachelor's degree from Columbia University in 1969 and taught French and English in Cleveland . In 1976 he returned to New York and worked at a research center for rheumatic diseases. Between 1985 and 1991 he worked at Springer-Verlag. Michael Brodsky lives on Roosevelt Island , New York.

In Michael Brodsky's novels, disoriented heroes have to grapple with a diffuse outside world. While the daily routines are split up into countless little things, psychological strategies from the transport sector (diversion, roundabout) should provide orientation. In Detour , the hero tries to get along with the medical exploration world, but gets lost in details and gives up. In the "three-star novel" *** the narrative process itself is dismantled and questioned. In the sense of metafiction , a texture is created whose hero, intention or ideology must not be expressed and is described with the three asterisks as placeholders. In Xman , a universal nobody is crushed between locations, arguments and zeitgeist setups; it seeps into a world full of traps, interspersed with accidents and cruel anecdotes. In a medical alternative world, 'lege artis' is finally brought to an end, which is left over from the hectic everyday life. Only the Xman type can survive.

Novels

  • Detour , 1978 (expanded edition Del Sol Press, 2003)
  • Circuits , 1983
  • Xman , Four Walls Eight Windows, 1987
  • Dyad , Four Walls Eight Windows, 1989
  • *** , Four Walls Eight Windows, 1994
  • We Can Report Them , Four Walls Eight Windows, 1999

Stories, short stories

  • Wedding Feast , 1981
  • Project , 1982 (in it: The Envelope of the Given ; translated into German by Jürg Laederach under the title “Der Tatstatus und seineülle”, 1982)
  • X in Paris , 1988
  • Three Goat Songs , 1991
  • Southernmost , 1996
  • Limit Point , 2007

Translation into American

literature

  • Helmut Schödel : Michael Brodsky The facts of the case and its shell In: DIE ZEIT, September 16, 1983
  • Helmuth Schönauer : Diary of a librarian . Volume 1. 1982-1998. Klagenfurt 2015. Therein: Michael Brodsky, X in Paris (p. 248); Scapegoat songs , Three Goat Songs (p. 376)

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personal data
SURNAME Brodsky, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brodsky, Michael Mark (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , USA