"And as a student, you were forced to choose which cohort you were going with - and finally the professors from the English Department decamped and started the program in Semiotic Studies."Įugenides says his background in semiotics has helped him look for cliches in language and the structure of novels. "When I got to Brown, you had the older professors who had been teaching a certain way for 30 years and then you had this other gang that was down with the semiotic program," he says. How?Įugenides also studied at Brown in the '80s when semiotics - the study of symbols and signs - was just beginning to create a noticeable chasm within the Brown English Department. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. All three are about to graduate from Brown University in 1982.Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Marriage Plot Author Jeffrey Eugenides Mitchell is a religious scholar from Detroit who travels to India to work with Mother Teresa and Leonard is a brilliant philosophy student and a manic-depressive. Madeleine is an ambitious English major studying semiotics. His new novel, The Marriage Plot, involves a romantic triangle among three college students. His 1993 novel, The Virgin Suicides, was adapted for film by director Sofia Coppola. But I did want to traffic in the same ideas."Įugenides is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex. I didn't think it was possible to write a Jane Austen novel now, and in fact, it isn't. "I couldn't, being an American born in 1960.
"I envy writers who came from a world where social constrictions were still normative and they could still write marriage plots," he tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. Writer Jeffrey Eugenides laments the fact that he was born too late to write a novel about marriage in the style of writers like Jane Austen and Henry James.
Eugenides graduated from Brown University in 1983. Jeffrey Eugenides' 1993 novel, The Virgin Suicides, was adapted for film by director Sofia Coppola, and his 2002 novel, Middlesex, won a Pulitzer Prize.
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