ZUM TOD DES US-AMERIKANISCHEN SCHRIFTSTELLERS E.L. DOCTOROW

22.07.2015 Der am 6. Januar 1931 in New York City geborene US-amerikanische Schriftsteller und Publizist E.L. Doctorow (Bild) ist am 21. Juli 2015 ebenda gestorben.

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E.L. Doctorow was one of America's greatest novelists. His books taught me much, and he will be missed.

President Obama

https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/623661992952377344

Er schrieb Werke wie «Ragtime», «The March» und «Billy Bathgate» und wurde zu den bedeutendsten zeitgenössischen Autoren der USA gezählt: E.L. Doctorow. Am Dienstag verstarb der vielfach preisgekrönte Schriftsteller 84-jährig in New York.

sda/dpa/afp/buem

http://www.srf.ch/kultur/literatur/us-autor-e-l-doctorow-ist-gestorben

E.L. Doctorow nahm Geschichten aus der Vergangenheit und machte aus ihnen Lehren für die Zukunft.

sda

http://www.derbund.ch/kultur/buecher/usautor-el-doctorow-ist-tot/story/14455246

In seinen Romanen hat E. L. Doctorow reale und fiktive historische Figuren und Ereignisse virtuos amalgamiert. Damit sicherte er sich einen Platz in der ersten Liga der zeitgenössischen US-Literatur.

Thomas Hermann

http://www.nzz.ch/feuilleton/die-luecken-im-text-der-geschichte-1.18583840?reduced=true

Doctorows Herausgeberin Kate Medina beschrieb den Autoren als Meister seines Fachs. "Durch Bücher von grosser Schönheit und Kraft und durch Charaktere, die ich niemals vergessen werde, hat er uns Amerikas grosse Fehler und erstaunliche Versprechen vor Augen geführt", schrieb Medina.

syd/Reuters/dpa

http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/literatur/e-l-doctorow-ist-tot-a-1044733.html

The author of a dozen novels, three volumes of short fiction and a stage drama, as well as essays and commentary on literature and politics, Mr. Doctorow was widely lauded for the originality, versatility and audacity of his imagination.

Subtly subversive in his fiction - less so in his left-wing political writing - he consistently upended expectations with a cocktail of fiction and fact, remixed in book after book; with clever and substantive manipulations of popular genres like the Western and the detective story; and with his myriad storytelling strategies.

Bruce Weber

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/22/books/el-doctorow-author-of-historical-fiction-dies-at-84.html?_r=0

He did not want to be called a political novelist. "My premise is that the language of politics can't accommodate the complexity of fiction, which as a mode of thought is intuitive, metaphysical, mythic." Although he wrote lovingly of the lost world of the Jewish Bronx in the 1930s, where he grew up, he rejected the idea that he was an autobiographical writer. "Every book is an act of composition," he remarked in 1989, "and if you happen to use memories or materials from your own mind, they are like any other resource; they have to be composed. And the act of composition has no regard where the material comes from. So when it's all done it's all autobiographical and none of it is."

Eric Homberger

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/jul/22/el-doctorow

Mehr:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._L._Doctorow

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