Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Eugenides
Jeffrey Kent Eugenidesis an American novelist and short story writer. He has written numerous short stories and essays, as well as three novels: The Virgin Suicides, Middlesex, and The Marriage Plot. The Virgin Suicides has been filmed, while Middlesex received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in addition to being a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the International Dublin Literary Award, and France's Prix Médicis...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 March 1960
CityDetroit, MI
CountryUnited States of America
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One of the reasons I like Barthes more than other writers of that ilk is because he had a literary quality.
I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different matters, money problems, love problems, school problems. People were falling in love, getting married, going to drug rehab, learning how to ice-skate, getting bifocals, studying for exams, trying on clothes, getting their hair-cut and getting born. And in some houses people were getting old and sick and were dying, leaving others to grieve. It was happening all the time, unnoticed, and it was the thing that really mattered.
I wanted to be an actor. My parents were not too keen on that.
She'd become an English major for the purest and dullest of reasons: because she loved to read.
There was nowhere I could go that wouldn't be you.
She wanted out of the decorating scheme.
no reason to mention my peculiarities, my wandering in the maze these many years, shut away from sight. and from love, too.
On the morning the last Lisbon daughter took her turn at suicide- it was Mary this time, and sleeping pills, like Therese- the two paramedics arrived at the house knowing exactly where the knife drawer was, and the gas oven, and the beam in the basement from which it was possible to tie a rope.
A changeableness, too, as if beneath my visible face there was another, having second thoughts.
But what humans forget, cells remember. The body, that elephant
Every novelist should possess a hermaphroditic imagination.
We're all made up of many parts, other halves. Not just me.
Whenever we got a glimpse, their faces looked indecently revealed, as though we were used to seeing women in veils.
I always work in a room where there's no Internet to keep from being distracted so easily.