Michael Brodsky
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
- Eleuthéria by Samuel Beckett , 1995 (original in French, 1947)
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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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 |