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"Day/Night brings together two metaphysical novels that mirror each other and are meant to be read in tandem: two men, each confined to a room, one suddenly alert to his existence, the other desperate to escape into sleep. In Travels in the Scriptorium (2007), elderly Mr. Blank wakes in an unfamiliar cell, with no memory of who he is or how he got there. He must use the few objects he finds and the information imparted by the day's string of visitors to cobble together an idea of his identity. In Man in the Dark (2008), another old man, August Brill, suffering from insomnia, struggles to push away thoughts of painful personal losses by imagining what might have been. Who are we? What is real and not real? How does the political intersect with the personal? After great loss, why are some of us unable to go on? "One of America's greats"* and a descendant of Kafka and Borges,** Auster explores in these two small masterpieces some of our most pressing philosophical concerns. *Time Out Chicago/**Booklist".

Si a Diari d’hivern indagava en el «jo» físic, a Informe de l’interior Paul Auster parla del despertar de la seva consciència.Amb la prosa enlluernadora i fluctuant d’Auster, Informe de l’interior mo

From the internationally bestselling author of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, and The New York TrilogyHaving recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster now remembers his development from within, through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world.From his babys-eye view of the man in the moon to his dawning awareness of the injustices in American life, Auster charts his intellectual, political, and moral journey as he inches his way toward adulthood from the postwar fifties and into the turbulent 1960s. He then recapitulates that journey through an album of pictures, answering the challenge of autobiography in ways rarely, if ever, seen before.

Paul Auster's first novel in seven years. His greatest, most provocative, most heartbreaking, most satisfying work. A sweeping story of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of lif

Marco Stanley Fogg está a las puertas de la edad adulta cuando los astronautas ponen el pie en la luna. Hijo de padre desconocido, fue educado por el excentrico tío Victor, que tocaba el clarinete en orquestas de mala muerte. En los albores de la era lunar, muerto su tio, Marco va cayendo progresivamente en la indigencia, la soledad y una suerte de tranquila locura de matices dostoievskianos, hasta que la bella Kitty Wu lo rescata. Marco empieza entonces a trabajar para un viejo pintor paralitico y escribe su biografia, que este quiere legar a su hijo, al que no llego a conocer. Tras un largo periplo que lo lleva hasta el Oeste y bajo el influjo de la omnipresente luna, Marco descubrira los misterios de su origen y la identidad de su progenitor.

Au fil de ces quatorze textes, Paul Auster rend hommage à une constellation de créateurs dont la rencontre, à travers leurs oeuvres et, parfois, dans la vie réelle, a durablement marqué son propre pa

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

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Seducido por un relato de Paul Auster, el cineasta Wayne Wang le pidió que le escribiera un guión. El resultado: “Smoke”, la historia de los destinos entrecruzados de un novelista, un vendedor de cig

American writer Stephen Crane died in 1900 at the age of 28. In his short, intense life, this burning boy wrote a masterpiece, The Red Badge of Courage, as well as other novels, short stories, and dispatches from the front of two wars. His adventurous life took him to the Wild West, Mexico, then to Cuba during the Spanish American War - dodging bullets which killed those around him, and suffering shipwreck on his way home.Fleeing America because of a scandalous love affair, his last 18 months were spent in Britain where he became a close friends of H.G. Wells, Henry James and, especially, Joseph Conrad. Auster 's intention is to restore Crane to the pantheon of Modernist 20th century authors such as Conrad.Through Auster's skill as a novelist, Crane leaps off the page, and into the reader's heart.

Cuando Jim Nashe es abandonado por su mujer, se lanza a la vida errante. Antes ha recibido una inesperada herencia de un padre que nunca conoció y que le permitirá vagabundear por América en un Saab rojo, el mejor coche que nunca tuvo. Nashe va de motel en motel, goza de la velocidad, vive en una soledad casi completa y experimenta la gozosa y desgarradora seducción del desarraigo absoluto. Tras un año de esta vida, y cuando apenas le quedan diez mil dólares de la herencia, conoce a Jack Pozzi, un jovencísimo jugador profesional de póquer. Los dos hombres entablan una peculiar relación y Jim Nashe se constituye en el socio capitalista de Pozzi. Una sola sesión de póquer podría hacerles ricos. Sus contrincantes serán Flower y Stone, dos curiosos millonarios que han ganado una fabulosa fortuna jugando a la lotería y viven juntos como dos modernos Bouvard y Pecuchet. A partir de aquí, la novela abandona el territorio de la «novela de la carretera» americana, y se interna en el dominio de la literatura gótica, entre Kafka y Beckett. Nashe y Pozzi penetran en un ámbito sutilmente terrorífico, y la morada de los millonarios se convertirá en una peculiar prisión, cuyos ilusorios límites y leyes no menos ilusorias deberán descubrir.

Walt es un niño huérfano al que el Maestro Yehudi enseña a volar. Al llegar a la adolescencia Walt pierde sus dotes, y ya adulto, en el Chicago de los gángsters se convierte en un hombre que trata desesperadamente de encontrarle sentido a su existencia. Una novela iniciática de uno de los mejores novelistas norteamericanos de nuestro tiempo, que abarca desde los «felices veinte» hasta la dura posguerra.