Jay Parini

Jay Parini ( born April 2, 1948 in Pittston, Pennsylvania) is an American literary critic, university lecturer and writer who was best known for his novel The Last Station.

Life

After school he studied at Lafayette College and earned there in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). A subsequent post-graduate studies in philosophy at the University of St Andrews, he finished in 1972 with a BA in Philosophy and also received from the University of St Andrews in 1975 a Philosophiae Doctor ( Ph.D.).

He then became a professor at Dartmouth College at Hanover (New Hampshire) and taught there until 1982. 1982 he accepted an appointment as professor at Middlebury College in Vermont and teaches there ever since. As a literary critic, he dealt in particular with the works of John Steinbeck as the journey with Charley: In Search of America, William Chomsky, Harold Brodkey, WS Merwin,

In addition to teaching Parini began a writing career. Some of his novels were published in German translation as Dark passages ( Benjamin 's Crossing ', 2000), and The Last Station: Tolstoy's last year (' The Last Station ', 2008). Gyrðir Elíasson wrote a translation of The Last Station in Icelandic under the title Endastöðin: Síðasta æviár Tolstoy ( 2002).

2009 The Last Station, which is about the last year of life of the Russian writer Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, filmed under the same title by Michael Hoffman with Christopher Plummer and Helen Mirren in the lead roles.

His other publications include:

  • John Steinbeck. A Biography, Henry Holt & Co., New York 1995
  • The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature: Academic novels -The essay in America, Volume 1, University of Michigan, ISBN 0-19-516724-4
  • The Oxford Companion to Twentieth - Century Poetry in English, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1996 (Editor)
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