Mark Z. Danielewski
Mark Z. Danielewski ( born March 5, 1966) is an American writer.
Life and work
Mark Z. Danielewski is the son of Polish film director Tad Danielewski and his wife, Priscilla Machold. His sister is the American singer and singer-songwriter Ann Danielewski, known by the stage name " Poe ".
Danielewski studied English Literature at Yale University and then took part in a graduate program of the USC School of Cinema-Television. He worked in publishing and was involved in the production of the documentary Derrida.
His published in 2000 debut novel House of Leaves (German: . Haus House of Leaves ) was in the United States quickly became a bestseller, especially since the book already had a cult following since it was published in advance as Internet text. Half a year after House of Leaves Danielewski published The Whalestoe Letters, a companion book to House of Leaves. The novel was translated into several languages , the German translation by Christa Schuenke appeared the end of August 2007 under the title The House - House of Leaves in the Klett- Cotta Verlag.
In 2009, the West German Broadcasting has produced The house as a radio play. On December 10, 2009, three levels of narration of a story were simultaneously on the WDR radio waves 1Live, WDR 3 and WDR 5 sent, which makes the listener could change during the transmission between the radio frequencies and thus make the process of interwoven levels of narration itself, and hearing could experience. After the SFB production Störfunk of Olf Dziadek and Angelika Maiworm, which ran on the waves of Sender Freies Berlin 1990 parallel, this was another attempt at a " three-dimensional " radio play.
In the Audio Publishers (DAV ), Berlin, the WDR production released on a DVD that allows the listener to hear the three narrative levels by changing the channels in infinite combinations. Radio play with Roberto Ciulli, Annathal Bach, Wolfram Koch, Christian Redl uva The play won the German Audio Book Prize 2011 in the category The special audiobook / best editing.
His second book, Only Revolutions, was released in 2006 and was nominated as a candidate for the 2006 National Book Award. Danielewski's literary work is characterized by an experimental approach to textual forms. So he uses complicated interwoven narrative levels, which he combined with typographical variations and different page layout. The German translation of Only Revolutions was released in March 2012 at the Klett- Cotta Verlag.
Works
Audiobooks
- The house. House of Leaves, read by Tom Schilling, Wolfram Koch and others, The Audio Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89813-995-3 ( radio play, 1 DVD, 159 min)