Deborah Eisenberg
reads from “Twilight of the Superheroes”
Literatures of the World
Presentation · Gabriele von Arnim
Speaker · Geno Lechner
Eisenberg has published four volumes of short stories to date, with which she has established herself as the most important chronicle of modern American urban life. “Twilight of the Superheroes” draws its tension from the various attitudes of middle age: cynicism and hope, serenity and naivety. The novel is soon to appear in German.
Deborah Eisenberg, born in Chicago in 1945, teaches Creative Writing in Virginia and is one of the major representatives of the contemporary American short story.
Presentation · Gabriele von Arnim
Speaker · Geno Lechner
Eisenberg has published four volumes of short stories to date, with which she has established herself as the most important chronicle of modern American urban life. “Twilight of the Superheroes” draws its tension from the various attitudes of middle age: cynicism and hope, serenity and naivety. The novel is soon to appear in German.
Deborah Eisenberg, born in Chicago in 1945, teaches Creative Writing in Virginia and is one of the major representatives of the contemporary American short story.