Edward Abbey

Edward Paul Abbey (* 29. Januar 1927 in Indiana, Pennsylvania; † 14. März 1989 in Tucson, Arizona) war ein US-amerikanischer Naturforscher, Philosoph und Schriftsteller, der sein Werk dem Südwesten der Vereinigten Staaten widmete. Seine bekanntesten Werke sind Desert Solitaire und der Roman The Monkey Wrench Gang, der radikale Umweltaktivisten inspirierte, u.a. zur Gründung von Earth First! und dem Begriff Monkeywrenching.

Bibliographie

Romane

• Jonathan Troy (1954) (ISBN 1-131-40684-2)
• The Brave Cowboy (1956) (ISBN 0-8263-0448-6)
• Fire on the Mountain (1962) (ISBN 0-8263-0457-5)
• Black Sun (1971) (ISBN 0-88496-167-2)
• The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975) (ISBN 0-397-01084-2). Illustriert von Robert Crumb
  • deutsche Ausgabe: Die Universal-Schraubenschlüsselbande. Deutsch von Sabine Hedinger. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1987, ISBN 3-499-15895-7. Neu aufgelegt als Die Monkey-Wrench-Gang. Walde + Graf, Zürich 2010, ISBN 978-3-03-774015-6.
• Good News (1980) (ISBN 0-525-11583-8)
• The Fool's Progress (1988) (ISBN 0-8050-0921-3)
• Hayduke Lives (1989) (ISBN 0-316-00411-1)
• Earth Apples: The Poetry of Edward Abbey (1994) (ISBN 0-312-11265-3)

Non-fiction

• Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness (1968) (ISBN 0-8165-1057-1)
• Appalachian Wilderness (1970)
• Slickrock (1971) (ISBN 0-87156-051-8)
• Cactus Country (1973)
• The Journey Home (1977) (ISBN 0-525-13753-X)
• The Hidden Canyon (1977)
• Das Kaktusland (1978) Dt. von Bernd Rullkötter (90-6182-297-1)
• Abbey's Road (1979) (ISBN 0-525-05006-X)
• Desert Images (1979)
• Down the River (with Henry Thoreau & Other Friends) (1982) (ISBN 0-525-09524-1)
• In Praise of Mountain Lions (1984)
• Beyond the Wall (1984) (ISBN 0-03-069299-7)
• One Life at a Time, Please (1988) (ISBN 0-8050-0602-8)
• A Voice Crying in the Wilderness: Notes from a Secret Journal (1989)
• Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey, 1951–1989 (1994) (ISBN 0-316-00415-4)

Briefe

• Cactus Chronicles published by Orion Magazine, Jul–Aug 2006 (no longer active,)
• Postcards from Ed (book)|Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast (2006) (ISBN 1-57131-284-6)

Anthologien

• Slumgullion Stew: An Edward Abbey Reader (1984)
• The Best of Edward Abbey (1984)
• The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader (1995)

Zitate

• "In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time."

• "Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners."

• "The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other—instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals."

• "Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."

Weblinks

• abbeyweb - viele Informationen über Edward Abbey und seine Bücher (in englisch)
• Ecodefense: A Field Guide To Monkeywrenching - Vorwort von Edward Abbey (auf archive.org, in englisch)
• Direkte Aktion greift in deutsch einige Aspekte von Ecodefense auf.

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