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In Winter Journal, Auster presents the abandonment of the family by his father from his mother's point of view: her struggle as a single mother; love found again late in life, a love that was short-lived; her troubled later years and, finally, her death - and the subsequent anxiety attacks Auster suffered in the face of her death.

Eine Tragodie, ein Spiel, ein Meisterwerk.Sunset Park beschreibt die Hoffnungen und Sorgen einer unvergesslichen Schar von Menschen, die in den dunkelsten Zeiten der amerikanischen Wirtschaftskrise zusammenkommen: ein ratselhafter junger Mann, der wie besessen Trummer fotografiert; eine kuhle Cineastin mit Hang zum Androgynen; ein politischer Aktivist, der in seiner Klinik fur kaputte Dinge Artefakte einer verschwundenen Welt repariert; eine Malerin erotischer Themen; eine einst gefeierte Schauspielerin, die sich auf ihr Comeback am Broadway vorbereitet; ein Kleinverleger, der versucht, seinen Verlag und seine Ehe zu retten.

Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date"In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . ."Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in "Winter Journal," internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world in "Report from the Interior."From his baby's-eye view of the man in the moon, to his childhood worship of the movie cowboy Buster Crabbe, to the composition of his first poem at the age of nine, to his dawning awareness of the injustices of American life, "Report from the Interior" charts Auster's moral, political, and intellectual journey as he inches his way toward adulthood through the postwar 1950s and into the turbulent 1960s. Auster evokes the sounds, smells, and tactile sensations that marked his early life--and the many images that came at him, including moving images (he adored cartoons, he was in love with films), until, at its unique climax, the book breaks away from prose into pure imagery: The final section of "Report from the Interior" recapitulates the first three parts, told in an album of pictures. At once a story of the times--which makes it everyone's story--and the story of the emerging consciousness of a renowned literary artist, this four-part work answers the challenge of autobiography in ways rarely, if ever, seen before. A "Kirkus Reviews "Best Nonfiction Book of 2013

Die beruhrende Bilanz eines LebensDies ist ein emotional mitreiendes, mit den ersten Zeilen packendes Buch: eine Lebensbeichte ganz aus der Warte des Korpers. Man kommt darin dem Schriftsteller Paul Auster sehr nahe, aber auch und vor allem dem Mann an der Schwelle zum Alter. Paul Auster spricht aus, was seine Hand, seine Fue, seine Glieder im Verlauf eines langen Lebens getan haben.Er lasst seine Liebesbeziehungen Revue passieren: viele zunachst, und dann ? dreiig Jahre lang ? nur noch die eine, groe Liebe! Die Kinder, die Abtreibungen, die Krankheiten. Er spricht uber die Begegnungen mit dem Tod: ein Sturz als Junge, eine Herzattacke, ein Autounfall. Uber die Korperlichkeit auch, die unendliche Empfindlichkeit jenes physischen Systems, das uns am Leben erhalt und uber das wir so wenig nachdenken, solange es funktioniert. Alkohol, Zigarrillos, Suchte ? all die Versuchungen, dieses System auszutricksen, sich dem Verfall, dem Alltag zu entziehen.Winterjournal ist eine Art Autobiographie, aber keine konventionelle, sondern hochste literarische Kunst: voll philosophischer Betrachtungen, poetischer Impressionen, intimer Einsichten.Pressestimmen:"Paul Auster ist einfach genial." (Haruki Murakami)"Auster ist der herausragende Autor der Generation nach Updike und Bellow, im Grunde deren einziger Schriftsteller, der sich wahrhaft gro nennen darf." (The Spectator, London)

Trente ans après L'Invention de la solitude, Paul Auster pose sur son parcours le regard du sexagénaire qu'il est devenu en convoquant la mémoire de son corps et des multiples sensations qui n'ont ce

Paul Auster’s greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel—a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson’s life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. Meanwhile, readers will take in each Ferguson’s pleasures and ache from each Ferguson’s pains, as the mortal plot of each Ferguson’s life rushes on. As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written, yet with a passion for realism and a great tenderness and fierce attachment to history and to life itself that readers have never seen from Auster before. 4 3 2 1 is a marvelous and unforgettably affecting tour de force

Austers tragicomic tale of one unforgettable dog from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: a literary voice for the ages (Guardian) Meet Mr Bones, the canine hero of Paul Austers remarkable novel. Bones is the sidekick of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant but troubled poet-saint from Brooklyn. Together they sally forth across America to Baltimore, Maryland, on one last great adventure, searching for Willys old teacher, Bea Swanson. Years have passed since Willy last saw his beloved mentor, who used to know him as William Gurevitch, son of Polish war refugees. But is Mrs Swanson still alive? And if not, what will prevent Willy from vanishing into that other world known as Timbuktu?In this brilliant novel, Auster writes with economy, precision and the quirky pathos of noir, addressing the pernicious ubiquity of American consumerism, the nature of love and the core riddles of ontology. Above all, though, this is the affecting tale of a special dogs place in the universe of humans and in the fleeting life of a special man.Publishers Weekly

Walt Rawley e un ragazzino senza futuro nell'America degli anni '20. È orfano, vive nelle strade di St. Louis, ma possiede "il dono" e Master Yehudi, un personaggio misterioso, gli promette di insegnargli a volare. L'apprendistato e bizzarro e comprende l'essere seppellito sottoterra per ventiquattr'ore, ma alla fine Walt diventa davvero il "Bambino Prodigio", star di uno spettacolo ambulante di cui Master Yehudi e il regista nascosto. Il bambino volante attraversa la storia di mezzo secolo americano tra incursioni del Ku Klux Klan, storie di gangster, giocatori di baseball e vite bruciate, finendo per aprire a Chicago negli anni '30 un locale clandestino destinato a diventare famoso, il Mr Vertigo.

Conmovedora y personal meditación sobre la paternidad, el relato salta de la ternura al misterio cuando Auster, pasando revista a la vida de su padre, descubre que hubo un asesinato en su familia ses

Austers existential tale of Mr Blank from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: a literary voice for the ages (Guardian) An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few objects around him are one-word, hand-written, labels and on the desk is a series of vaguely familiar black-and-white photgraphs and four piles of paper. Then a middle-aged woman called Anna enters and talks of pills and treatment, but also of love and promises.Who is this Mr Blank, and what is his fate? What does Anna represent from his past - and will he have enough time to ever make sense of the clues that arise?After the huge success of The Brooklyn Follies, Travels in the Scriptorium sees Auster return to more metaphysical territory. A dark puzzle, and a game that implicates both reader and writer alike, it is an ingenious exploration of language, responsibility and the passage of time.

An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few objects around him are one-word, hand-written, labels and on the desk is a series of vaguely familiar black-and-white photgraphs and four piles of paper. Then a middle-aged woman called Anna enters and talks of pills and treatment, but also of love and promises. Who is this Mr Blank, and what is his fate? What does Anna represent from his past - and will he have enough time to ever make sense of the clues that arise? After the huge success of The Brooklyn Follies, Travels in the Scriptorium sees Auster return to more metaphysical territory. A dark puzzle, and a game that implicates both reader and writer alike, it is an ingenious exploration of language, responsibility and the passage of time.

Quinn escribe novelas policíacas. Una noche alguien llama por teléfono y lo confunde con un detective llamado Paul Auster. Quinn decide hacerse pasar por él y conoce a su cliente, un hombre que fue martirizado por su padre y que ahora teme su salida de la institucion en que estaba confinado.

inuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life. Three different narrators tell the story of Invisible, a novel that travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside Heights to the Left Bank of Paris to a remote island in the Caribbean. It is a book of youthful rage, unbridled sexual hunger, and a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us into the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, between authorship and identity, to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as "one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers."

Un número equivocado está en el origen de este libro. Un hombre lo llamó por teléfono una noche preguntando por la agencia de detectives Pinkerton; el novelista le dijo que se había equivocado. Llamada y respuesta se repitieron la noche siguiente. Y el narrador nato que es Paul Auster se planteo que habria sucedido si hubiera fingido que, en efecto, el era un detective... Y un equivoco conduce a otro, y sibilinamente se pone en marcha el audaz mecanismo que mueve esta historia, en la que lo irreal va horadando lo real y el novelista ejerce de cazador de coincidencias, de traductor de las siempre oscuras revelaciones del azar