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Douglas Coupland ist ein kanadischer Schriftsteller und bildender Künstler. Sein erzählerisches Werk wird ergänzt durch eine international anerkannte Tätigkeit als Designer und bildender Künstler. Sein erster Roman Generation X, der im Jahr 1991 erschien, wurde zu einem internationalen Bestseller und führte Begriffe wie McJob und Generation X in den allgemeinen Sprachgebrauch ein. Ein durchgehendes Merkmal von Couplands Romanen und Kurzgeschichten ist ihre Synthese von postmoderner Religiosität, Web 2.0, Sexualität und Popkultur.

Coupland lebt gemeinsam mit seinem Lebensgefährten David Weir in West Vancouver, British Columbia. Er hat mittlerweile 15 Romane veröffentlicht und eine Biografie über Marshall McLuhan verfasst. Coupland war 2006 und 2010 für den Scotiabank Giller-Preis und 2009 für den Writers' Trust Fiction Prize sowie 2011 für seine Biografie über McLuhan für den Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize nominiert. Die britische Zeitung The Guardian nahm 2009 zwei seiner Erzählungen, nämlich Girlfriend in a Coma und Microsklaven in die Liste der 1000 Romane auf, die jeder gelesen haben muss. 2013 wurde Coupland der Order of Canada verliehen, die höchste Auszeichnung, die kanadische Zivilpersonen erhalten können. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. Dezember 1961  •  Andere Namen - Douglas Coupland
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„Wir sind Tiere. Unser erster Instinkt, wenn wir etwas Schönes sehen, ist, es zu fressen.“

Douglas Coupland buch Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet, Übersetzer: Harald Riemann, München, Goldmann, 1996, ISBN 3-442-42273-6

Douglas Coupland: Zitate auf Englisch

“At least when you're young you're also stupid.”

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Douglas Coupland Hey Nostradamus!

Quelle: Hey Nostradamus!

“It's like male geeks don't know how to deal with real live women, so they just assume it's a user interface problem. Not their fault. They'll just wait for the next version to come out- something more "user friendly.”

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Douglas Coupland Microserfs

Quelle: Microserfs

“Our achievements may make us interesting, Tyler, but our darkness makes us lovable.”

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Douglas Coupland buch Shampoo Planet

Quelle: Shampoo Planet

“You've seen what you've seen; you've felt what you've felt. Ideology is for people who don't trust their own experiences and perceptions of the world.”

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Douglas Coupland buch Generation A

Quelle: Generation A

“Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just
something we haul into the grave.”

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Douglas Coupland Hey Nostradamus!

Quelle: Hey Nostradamus!

“I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one person in the world who doesn’t do bad things. And that there is one person in the world who is able to fly.”

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Douglas Coupland buch Life After God

Quelle: Life After God

“… you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.”

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“Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience fewer new things, and so time seems to go by faster.”

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Douglas Coupland buch Life After God

Quelle: Life After God

“I don't understand beauty.”

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Douglas Coupland buch Eleanor Rigby

Eleanor Rigby

“Poverty Jet Set: A group of people given to chronic travelling at the expense of long-term job stability or a permenant residence. Tend to have doomed and extremely expensive phone call relationships with people named Serge or Ilyana. Tend to discuss frequent flyer programs at parties.”

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Douglas Coupland

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“You are paralyzed by the fact that cruelty is often amusing.”

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Douglas Coupland buch Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

““What do lesbians have against capitalized letters?”
“Capitalization implies a hierarchy, that some letters are more special than others.””

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Douglas Coupland buch JPod

JPod (2006)

“There was a fifteen-second patch of silence, then Craig said, 'Isn't it weird that Hotmail accounts still exist?' 'It really is,' said Bev.”

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Douglas Coupland buch Generation A

Quelle: Generation A (2009), p. 222

“Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores once, but hucked them away and replaced them with something more attractive but also hollow.”

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Douglas Coupland buch Girlfriend in a Coma

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

“Being alive is just a brief technicality.”

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Douglas Coupland buch Generation A

Quelle: Generation A (2009), p. 167

“Your refusal to acknowledge the dark side of humanity makes you prey to that dark side.”

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Douglas Coupland buch Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

“Historical Overdosing: to live in a period of time when too much seems to happen. Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts.”

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Douglas Coupland

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Variante: Historical Overdosing: to live in a period of time when too much seems to happen. Major symptoms include addiction to newspapers, magazines, and TV news broadcasts.

“Comics day came and went. Another shoes day came and went. And another comics day followed that — the typical production and consumption cycles that help us survice our dismal, meaningless little lives.”

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Douglas Coupland buch JPod

JPod (2006)

“The two of you start talking about your feelings and your feelings float outside of you like vapors, and they mix together like a fog. Before you realize it, the two of you have become the same mist and you realize you can never return to being just a lone cloud again, because the isolation would be intolerable.”

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Douglas Coupland Microserfs

Microserfs (1995)

“What's the point of being efficient if you're only leading an efficiently blank life?”

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Douglas Coupland buch Girlfriend in a Coma

Girlfriend in a Coma (1998)

“I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -- sproing!-- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.”

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Douglas Coupland buch Life After God

Life After God (1994)

“You worry that if you lower your guard, even for one second, your whole world will disintegrate into chaos.”

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Douglas Coupland buch Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

““I have this theory about smart people. If you’re smart, you’re either the only person in your family who’s smart, or everybody in the family is smart. No in-between.”
I considered this. “I think I come from the everybody’s smart category. But they don’t apply their smarts to… larger picture pursuits. That includes me.””

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Douglas Coupland buch JPod

JPod (2006)

“"You're never too old to dance, Dad… and you're never too old to dream."
"That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard you say. Were you saying that with irony or for real?"”

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Douglas Coupland buch JPod

JPod (2006)

“Older staffers don’t even bother coming in on weekends. Where is the sleep-crazed, Pepsi-fuelled one-point-oh tech environment that can only be created by having no green vegetables, no sex and no life?
Cowboy said, “I miss the greed of the 1990s bubble.”
John Doe said, “I miss the possibility of unearned wealth.”
Bree said, “I miss the possibility of doing something Apple, something one-point-oh.”
Evil Mark said, “I miss people having Hot Wheels tracks set up in their cubicles.”
Gord-O walked into the pod. “You can’t miss the nineties, because you weren’t there. They were great. Too bad you screwed-up twits missed out on the party.””

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Douglas Coupland buch JPod

JPod (2006)

“All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.”

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Douglas Coupland

Generation X (1991)

“I have this feeling watching Jasmine - that as you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong; you become superstitious about tempting fate, about bringing disaster upon your life by accidentally feeling too good one day.”

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Douglas Coupland buch Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

“Unlike Rachel, Player One has a complete overview both of the world and of time. Player One’s life is more like a painting than it is a story. Player One can see everything with a glance and can change tenses at will. Player One has ultimate freedom, the ultimate software on the ultimate hardware. That realm is also the one place where Player One feels, for lack of a better word, normal.”

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Douglas Coupland buch Player One

Player One (2010)

“I'm beginning to feel like a microwaved egg that will explode if anybody so much as breathes onto the surface.”

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Douglas Coupland buch Shampoo Planet

Shampoo Planet (1992)

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