Michael Brodsky
| Michael Brodsky | |
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| Born |
August 2, 1948 New York City, United States |
| Occupation | Novelist, Editor |
| Nationality | American |
| Literary movement | Postmodern |
| Notable works |
Xman, *** |
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Michael Mark Brodsky (born Aug 2, 1948) is a scientific/medical editor, novelist, playwright, and short story writer. He is best known for his novels, and for his translation of Samuel Beckett's Eleuthéria.
Michael Brodsky was born in New York City, the son of Martin and Marian Brodsky. He attended the Bronx High School of Science. He received a 1969 BA from Columbia University, taught math and science in New York for a year, attended Case Western Reserve University medical school for two years, then taught French and English in Cleveland until 1975.
Brodsky returned to New York City in 1976, working as an editor for the Institute for Research on Rheumatic Diseases. He married Laurence Lacoste. They are the parents of two children, Joseph Matthew and Matthew Daniel. From 1985-1991, Brodsky was an editor with Springer-Verlag. After 1991, he was with the United Nations.
Brodsky lives on Roosevelt Island.
The following list of "Books by Michael Brodsky" appeared in Project and other short pieces:
The entries with a bullet-point have been published, or, in the case of the plays, performed. All novels but the last were named in a German-language newspaper article on Brodsky.Flesh is Flesh was named as forthcoming on the dustjacket of the first edition of Detour.
Never published, these plays were performed Off-Off-Broadway in brief runs:
Apparently never performed, these plays were published in Project:
Critical reception to Brodsky's work has been strongly polarized, with the praise putting him in the company of some of the greatest writers, and with the rejections being openly insulting.
His novels, plays and short story collections have been likened, by the mainstream press, to the work of Beckett, Joyce, Kafka, Proust, Dostoevski and Swift, as well as Barth, Pynchon, Barthelme and Burroughts. I would add Thomas Bernhard and Italo Svevo, for reasons of style and the formidable, original talent their texts exhibit.
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