Too ashamed to face his family, he asks his former mentor Bernhard Kornblum for help. In trying to leave Czechoslovakia, Josef is sent back to Prague on a paperwork technicality. He hopes that his cousin Sammy Klayman can help him find a job because he needs money to free his family. Josef Kavalier has just arrived in New York City after escaping Nazi-occupied Prague. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay begins in October 1939. Plot Summary Part I: The Escape Artist Chapter 1 Chabon has also published two volumes of short stories and a number of screenplays, including part of the popular movie Spider-Man 2 (2004).Ĭhabon often writes about Jewish identity, homosexuality, and single parenthood. The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist won the 2005 Eisner Award for Best Anthology. The Final Solution, a short novel about Sherlock Holmes, was published in 2004.Īs of 2006, Dark Horse Comics, in conjunction with Chabon, was publishing a quarterly comic book edition of The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, drawing on the fictional history of this superhero. With Summerland (2002), Chabon dabbled in the young adult market and won the 2003 Mythopoeic Fantasy Award. As of 2006, a film adaptation was reportedly in the works. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (2000) won Chabon the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. His second novel, Wonder Boys (1995), was made into a feature film in 2000, starring Michael Douglas. Chabon earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from the University of Pittsburgh in 1984 and a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at the University of California at Irving.Ĭhabon has been a successful writer since the publication of his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (1988), which was his master's thesis and became a bestseller. He was introduced to comic books as a child by his grandfather, who brought them home from the plant where he worked. Chabon grew up in Columbia, Maryland, while most of that planned city was still being constructed. His parents divorced when he was eleven years old. His father worked as a lawyer, physician, and a hospital manager his mother as a lawyer. Michael Chabon (pronounced shay-bon) was born May 24, 1963, in Washington, D.C., to Robert and Sharon Chabon. With its clever mix of literary self-consciousness and shameless adventure, Kavalier & Clay is one of those rare books which appeal to readers of both serious and popular fiction. They experience fame, tragedy, love, and a little bit of magic. Kavalier & Clay follows two Jewish cousins in New York City, Joe Kavalier and Sammy Clay, who grow into adulthood during the onset of World War II. The author's inspiration in part came from Superman's creators: two Midwestern Jewish boys, Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, who sold their nascent superhero to the publisher of Detective Comics (DC Comics) for a hundred and thirty dollars. Kavalier & Clay is an epic tale that is topically unique within Chabon's body of work but stylistically consistent with his distinctive, graceful use of language.ĭrawing on his own love of comic books for Kavalier & Clay, Chabon deftly weaves historical facts and figures together with light touches of fantasy. Kavalier & Clay took the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2001 and has drawn as much notice as Chabon's previous book, Wonder Boys, which was made into a feature film. Some critics found Chabon's novel overly long, but all agreed that it is stylistically sound and well written. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon, was published in 2000 to critical and popular acclaim. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon 2000 Introduction Author Biography Plot Summary Characters Themes Style Historical Context Critical Overview Criticism Sources Further Reading Introduction
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