Hi, I'm Mark Auslander, a faculty member in the Department of Anthropology. I'm interested in people's thoughts on the word "wondrous" in the novel's title. For much of the book the reader might think that "wondrous" refers to the kind of mind-bending wonder in the science fiction and fantasy books, movies and games that Oscar is so taken with. But as the novel progresses, different forms of wonder enter into our horizon, and by the end, "wonder" becomes something quite different. But just what is that new form of wonder, hinted at in the book's final lines? And what does this kind of wonder have to do with the power of writing itself?
Any thoughts?
all the best,
Mark Auslander
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Diaz will be visiting Brandeis on August 26th as part of first year orientation to speak and take questions on his Pulitzer- prize winning novel
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Junot Diaz: Author of "The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Woa"
Diaz will be visiting Brandeis on August 26th as part of first year orientation to speak and take questions on his Pulitzer- prize winning novel
The Author: Junot Diaz
According to his personal website:
Junot Díaz was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic and is the author of Drown and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao which won the John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Dayton Literary Peace Prize and the 2008 Pulitzer Prize. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, African Voices, Best American Short Stories (1996, 1997, 1999, 2000), in Pushcart Prize XXII and in The O'Henry Prize Stories 2009.
He has received a Eugene McDermott Award, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a Lila Acheson Wallace Readers Digest Award, the 2002 Pen/Malamud Award, the 2003 US-Japan Creative Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the fiction editor at the Boston Review and the Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
He has received a Eugene McDermott Award, a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, a Lila Acheson Wallace Readers Digest Award, the 2002 Pen/Malamud Award, the 2003 US-Japan Creative Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is the fiction editor at the Boston Review and the Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
For more information please visit:http://www.junotdiaz.com/
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