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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.

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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 famili

Paul Auster, der bekannte amerikanische Bestsellerautor, legt in Gestalt eines Rätselspiels sein bisher umfangreichstes Werk und Opus magnum vor: die vierfach unterschiedlich erzählte Geschichte eines jungen Amerikaners in den fünfziger und sechziger Jahren des 20. Jahrhunderts - ein Epos voll mit Politik, Zeitgeschichte, Liebe, Leidenschaft und dem wechselvollen Spiel des Zufalls.'4 3 2 1' - das sind vier Variationen eines Lebens: Archibald Ferguson, von allen nur Archie genannt, wächst im Newark der fünfziger Jahre auf. "Was für ein interessanter Gedanke", sagt er sich als kleiner Junge, "sich vorzustellen, wie für ihn alles anders sein könnte, auch wenn er selbst immer derselbe bliebe. Ja, alles war möglich, und nur weil etwas auf eine bestimmte Weise geschah, hieß das noch lange nicht, dass es nicht auch auf eine andere Weise geschehen konnte."Im Verein mit der höheren Macht einer von Paul Auster raffiniert dirigierten literarischen Vorsehung entspinnen sich nun vier unterschiedliche Versionen von Archies Leben: provinziell und bescheiden; kämpferisch, aber vom Unglück verfolgt; betroffen und besessen von den Ereignissen der Zeit; künstlerisch genial begabt und nach den Sternen greifend. Und alle vier sind vollgepackt mit Abenteuern, Liebe, Lebenskämpfen und den Schlägen eines unberechenbaren Schicksals …'4 3 2 1' ist ein faszinierendes Gedankenspiel und ein Höhepunkt in Austers Schaffen. Seine großen Themen, das Streben nach Glück, die Rolle des Zufalls, Politik und Zeitgeschichte von Hiroshima bis Vietnam - alle sind hier versammelt und verdichtet in den hoffnungsvollen Lebenswegen eines jungen Mannes, der sein Glück in der Welt zu finden sucht.

Després de perdre la dona i els dos fills en un accident d'avió, David Zimmer perd la il·lusió per viure. Una nit, per casualitat, veu a la televisó una pel·lícula muda protagonitzada per Hector

Una mañana de enero de 1979, Paul Auster se enteró de que su padre había muerto. y comenzó a escribir La invención de la soledad que, como él dice, fue el comienzo de todo. Entre la memoria, el ajuste de cuentas y la investigacion de la "novela familiar", esta obra germinal de todo el edificio literario austeriano, se divide en dos partes. En Retrato de un hombre invisible, se nos descubre elmisterio de un asesinato ocurrido en la familia sesenta años antes, un episodio que permite sospechar las causas del frio y distante caracter del padre muerto. En El libro de la memoria, Auster encadena la reflexion acerca de su papel de hijo con su propia paternidad y la soledad (¿orfandad?) del escritor.

Paul Auster gathers his autobiographical writings and his criticism in this hefty volume. Ranging from his brilliant early work THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE to a discussion of the fiction of Knut Hamsun, Auster's writing is interesting both in itself and as an adjunct to his fiction, illuminating his plots, his hangups, and his major themes.An essential collection from one of the finest thinkers and stylists in contemporary letters. The celebrated author of The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions, and Oracle Night presents here a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces, true stories, autobiographical writings, and collaborations with artists, as well as occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers, including The Invention of Solitude his "breathtaking memoir." (Financial Times Magazine London) Ranging in subject from Sir Walter Raleigh to Kafka, Nathaniel Hawthorne to the high-wire artist Philippe Petit, conceptual artist Sophie Calle to Auster's own typewriter, the World Trade Center catastrophe to his beloved New York City itself, Collected Prose records the passions and insights of a writer who "will be remembered as one of the great writers of our time"

In the expert hands of David Mazzuchelli (Batman), Paul Karasik (Raw) and Art Spiegelman (Maus), Auster's spin on the detective story has been given a unique and unexpected new life. When a stranger calls on Daniel Quinn's phone asking to speak to Paul Auster (supposedly a detective), Quinn claims to be Auster and soon is drawn into a case involving a man who fears his father is trying to kill him. 'An impressive if not major work,' PW concluded.

Quinn writes mysteries. The Washington Post has described him as a "post-existentialist private eye." An unknown voice on the telephone is now begging for his help, drawing him into a world and a mystery far stranger than any he ever created in print. Adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli, with graphics by David Mazzucchelli, Paul Auster's groundbreaking, Edgar Award-nominated masterwork has been astonishingly transformed into a new visual language.

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«La nit de l´oracle és una novel·la fascinant, torbadora, sorprenent, plena d´encanteris, atzars i destins que es barregen en una història de múltiples lectures que mantenen el lector enganxat a la b

Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, thirty-four-year-old novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and puzzling events that threaten to destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality. Why does his wife suddenly break down in tears in the backseat of a taxi just hours after Sidney begins writing in the notebook? Why does M. R. Chang, the owner of the stationery shop, precipitously close his business the next day? What are the connections between a 1938 Warsaw telephone directory and a lost novel in which the hero can predict the future? At what point does animosity explode into violence? To what degree is forgiveness the ultimate expression of love? Paul Auster's mesmerizing eleventh novel reads like an old-fashioned ghost story. But there are no ghosts in this book--only flesh-and-blood human beings, wandering through the haunted realms of everyday life. At once a meditation on the nature of time and a journey through the labyrinth of one man's imagination, "Oracle Night" is a narrative tour de force that confirms Auster's reputation as one of the boldest, most original writers at work in America today.