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Denis Johnson

デニス・ジョンソン

Denis Johnson

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1949-07-01 （Munich, West Germany）
死没
2017-05-24 （Gualala, California, U.S. (near Sea Ranch)） 67歳
国籍
United States
言語
English
宗教
Christianity (convert)
居住地歴
Philippines (childhood) → Japan (childhood) → Suburbs of Washington, D.C. (grew up) → Phoenix, Arizona → Idaho (shared home) → Sea Ranch / Gualala, California

経歴

職業
novelist, poet, playwright
活動期間
1969年〜2017年
所属
Intersection for the Arts (Campo Santo), Iowa Writers' Workshop (teaching), Texas State University (Mitte Chair in Creative Writing), Michener Center for Writers (occasional teaching)
影響を受けた人物
Raymond Carver, Isaac Babel

学歴

University of Iowa
Department of English
学位: B.A.（英語）
期間: 1967–1971
卒業年: 1971
国: United States
Iowa Writers' Workshop (University of Iowa)
Iowa Writers' Workshop (MFA)
学位: M.F.A.
期間: 1972–1974
卒業年: 1974
国: United States
Later taught at the Workshop

受賞歴

National Poetry Series
1981
対象作品: The Incognito Lounge (poems)
主催: National Poetry Series
結果: 受賞
The Frost Place (poet in residence)
1983
主催: The Frost Place
結果: 選出（詩人在住）
Guggenheim Fellowship
1986
主催: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
結果: 受賞
Whiting Award
1986
主催: Whiting Foundation
結果: 受賞
Lannan Fellowship in Fiction
1993
主催: Lannan Foundation
結果: 選出
Aga Khan Prize for Fiction (The Paris Review)
2002
対象作品: Train Dreams
主催: The Paris Review
結果: 受賞
National Book Award for Fiction
2007
対象作品: Tree of Smoke
主催: National Book Foundation
結果: 受賞
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2008
対象作品: Tree of Smoke
主催: Pulitzer Prize Board
結果: ファイナリスト（ノミネート）
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
2012
対象作品: Train Dreams
主催: Pulitzer Prize Board
結果: ファイナリスト（ノミネート）
Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction
2017
主催: Library of Congress
結果: 受賞（追贈）

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Angels

1983年 Novel (literary fiction)

A first major novel exploring addiction and redemption against a backdrop of a decaying American society; one of the works that established Johnson's reputation.

addictionredemptionloneliness

Jesus' Son

1992年 Short story collection

A collection of vignettes about addicts and the fallen, regarded as a seminal work of contemporary American short fiction.

addictionredemptionviolenceblack humor and pathos
映像化・舞台化
  • [Film] Jesus' Son (film) / Alison Maclean (1999)

Tree of Smoke

2007年 Novel (war / historical)

A sprawling novel set during the Vietnam War that explores complex characters and moral questions; won the 2007 National Book Award.

effects of warmoral ambiguitymemory and guilt

Train Dreams

2011年 Novella

A novella set in the early 20th-century American West that quietly depicts the life and losses of a solitary laborer; finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize.

isolationlosstransformation of the American frontier

The Laughing Monsters

2014年 Novel (literary thriller)

A later novel described by the author as a "literary thriller," set in Uganda, Sierra Leone and the Congo.

international politicsbetrayalviolence and ethics

全著作

  • The Man Among the Seals: Poems (1969)
  • Inner Weather (1976)
  • The Incognito Lounge and Other Poems (1982)
  • Angels (1983)
  • Fiskadoro (1985)
  • The Stars at Noon (1986)
  • Resuscitation of a Hanged Man (1991)
  • Jesus' Son (1992)
  • Already Dead: A California Gothic (1997)
  • The Name of the World (2000)
  • Seek: Reports from the Edges of America & Beyond (2001, essays)
  • Tree of Smoke (2007)
  • Nobody Move (2009)
  • Train Dreams (2011)
  • Soul of a Whore and Purvis: Two Plays in Verse (2012)
  • The Laughing Monsters (2014)
  • The Largesse of the Sea Maiden (2018, posthumous)

翻案

  • Jesus' Son (1999 film, dir. Alison Maclean)
  • Stars at Noon (2022 film, dir. Claire Denis, based on The Stars at Noon)

作風・主題

文体
concise, poetic prosefragmentary / vignette-based structureblend of metaphor and religious imagery
頻出モチーフ
drugs and addictionsalvation and atonementviolence and quotidian miracles

健康

  • liver cancer
    2016–2017
    Ultimately caused his death and affected his late-life output and posthumous recognition
  • drug and alcohol addiction (young adulthood)
    1970s–1983（断酒・断薬後復帰）
    Had major impact on his writing in the 1970s–early 1980s; after sobriety his literary productivity increased

評価・遺産

Denis Johnson was a major figure in late 20th- and early 21st-century American letters, acclaimed for works such as Jesus' Son and Tree of Smoke. His books continue to be read and studied after his death.

記念館・博物館

  • Harry Ransom Center (Denis Johnson papers) University of Texas at Austin, United States

関連学会

  • Academy of American Poets (profiled)

資料所蔵先

  • Papers held at the Harry Ransom Center (University of Texas at Austin)

大衆文化への影響

  • Film adaptation of Jesus' Son (1999) and other adaptations have brought his work into popular culture

引用

  • Three Rules To Write By: Write naked. Write in blood. Write in exile.
    出典: Denis Johnson (commonly cited statement)

豆知識

  • Has a cameo in the film adaptation of Jesus' Son (1999) as a man stabbed in the eye by his wife
  • Spent childhood years in Germany, the Philippines, Japan and the United States
  • Struggled with drug and alcohol addiction through his twenties; got sober in 1978 and quit recreational drugs in 1983
  • In 2012 the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was not awarded, a controversial outcome in the year Train Dreams was a finalist