Paul Auster
Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Bloodbath Nation, Baumgartner, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. Among his other honors are the Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, and the Premio Napoli for Sunset Park. In 2012, he was the first recipient of the NYC Literary Honors in the category of fiction. He was also a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions), the PEN/Faulkner Award (The Music of Chance), the Edgar Award (City of Glass), and the Man Booker Prize (4 3 2 1). Auster was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He died at age seventy-seven in 2024.
4 3 2 1
Paul Auster
A sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself. 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. The mortal plot of each Ferguson's life rushes on, with each Ferguson's pleasures, and ache from each Ferguson's pains.
4 3 2 1
Paul Auster
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.
A Música do Acaso
Paul Auster
Jim Nashe é um frívolo bombeiro de Boston que precisa de música como do ar que respira. A mulher abandona-o pouco antes da morte de seu pai, que nunca conheceu e que lhe deixa uma inesperada herança, que ele esbanja à medida que viaja sem rumo pelos Estados Unidos. Sem que estabeleça qualquer ponto de chegada, Jim deixa-se conduzir pelo acaso, que se torna a força motriz que determina a sua vida, transformando-a numa sucessão de acontecimentos aparentemente sem significado. Uma vida errante passada numa solidão quase completa, em que experimenta a divertida e dilacerante sedução do desenraizamento absoluto. Até ao dia em que a música do acaso lhe sugere uma outra aventura: apostar tudo numa única carta... Metáfora de como é fácil perder a identidade e de quão inexplicáveis são as regras que regulam as nossas vidas, A Música do Acaso é um romance sobre liberdade e destino reeditado pela ASA, com nova tradução. Um universo bizarro onde a realidade se transforma e um simples jogo muda irremediavelmente as vidas dos jogadores que nele participam. Obsessão, melancolia e o lado mais negro da natureza humana – alguns dos temas mais caros ao autor – estão todos aqui, neste romance emblemático do trabalho literário de Paul Auster.
A trilogia de Nova York
Paul Auster
Nas três histórias que compõem ‘A trilogia de Nova York’, Paul Auster revitaliza a literatura policial ao associar a investigação de um mistério a indagações sobre os limites da identidade e a natureza da arte. Em ‘Cidade de vidro’ Quinn, autor de romances policiais, recebe um estranho telefonema no meio da noite e, tomado por detetive particular,m decide encarnar o papel. ‘Fantasmas’ narra como o detetive Blue é contratado para seguir Black e vigiá-lo. No terceiro romance da trilogia, ‘O quarto fechado’, o escritor Fanshave desaparece de forma misteriosa; sua mulher incumbe um velho amigo do marido de publicar seus livros; o sucesso das obras do desaparecido desperta o desejo insólito de ele mesmo se transformar em Fanshave.
Auggie Wren's Christmas Story
Paul Auster
A timeless, utterly charming Christmas fable, beautifully illustrated and destined to become a classic. When Paul Auster was asked by The New York Times to write a Christmas story for the Op-Ed page, the result, "Auggie Wren's Christmas Story," led to Auster's collaboration on a film adaptation, Smoke. Now the story has found yet another life in this enchanting illustrated edition.It begins with a writer's dilemma: he's been asked by The New York Times to write a story that will appear in the paper on Christmas morning. The writer agrees, but he has a problem: How to write an unsentimental Christmas story? He unburdens himself to his friend at his local cigar shop, a colorful character named Auggie Wren. "A Christmas story? Is that all?" Auggie counters. "If you buy me lunch, my friend, I'll tell you the best Christmas story you ever heard. And I guarantee every word of it is true."And an unconventional story it is, involving a lost wallet, a blind woman, and a Christmas dinner. Everything gets turned upside down. What's stealing? What's giving? What's a lie? What's the truth? It's vintage Auster, and pure pleasure: a truly unsentimental but completely affecting tale.
Baumgartner
Paul Auster
A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning author and “one of the great American prose stylists of our time" (New York Times)
Paul Auster’s brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner – phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor – has just forgotten on the stove.
Baumgartner’s life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals of memory and reminiscence, delineated in episodes spanning from 1968, when Sy and Anna meet as broke students working and writing in New York, through their passionate relationship over the next forty years, and back to Baumgartner’s youth in Newark and his Polish-born father’s life as a dress-shop owner and failed revolutionary.
Rich with compassion, wit, and Auster’s keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient moments of ordinary life, Baumgartner asks: Why do we remember certain moments, and forget others? In one of his most luminous works and his first novel since the Booker-shortlisted tour-de-force 4 3 2 1, Paul Auster captures several lifetimes.
Bloodbath Nation
Paul Auster
An intimate and astonishing rumination on gun violence in America from one of our greatest living writers and "genuine American original" (The Boston Globe) Paul Auster
Paul Auster was a crack marksman as a kid, and like most American boys of his generation he grew up playing with toy six-shooters and mimicking the gun-slinging cowboys in B-Westerns. But he also knows how families can be wrecked by a single act of gun violence: His grandmother shot and killed his grandfather when his father was just six years old.Now, at this time of intense national discord, no issue divides Americans more deeply than the debate about guns. There are currently more guns than people in the United States, and every day more than one hundred Americans are killed by guns and another two hundred are wounded. These numbers are so large, so catastrophic, so disproportionate to what goes on elsewhere, that one must ask why. Why is America so different--and why are we the most violent country in the Western world?In this short, searing book, Auster traces centuries of America's use and abuse of guns, through the colonial prehistory of the Republic, armed conflict against the native population, the forced enslavement of millions, and the mass shootings that dominate the current news cycle. He examines the embattled gun-control and anti-gun-control camps, frames gun violence as a public health issue, and investigates the details of one horrific incident- including the perpetrator's unchecked purchase of the gun he used and the suffering of a bystander-turned-hero. Filled with haunting photographs by Spencer Ostrander that document the abandoned sites of more than thirty mass shootings, Bloodbath Nation is an unflinching work about guns in America that asks: What kind of society do we want to live in?
Brooklyn follies
Paul Auster
Nathan Glass ha sobrevivido a un cáncer de pulmón y a un divorcio después de tres décadas de matrimonio, y ha vuelto a Brooklyn, el lugar donde pasó su infancia. Hasta que enfermó era un vendedor de seguros; ahora que ya no tiene que ganarse la vida, piensa escribir El libro del desvarío humano. Contará todo lo que pasa a su alrededor, todo lo que le ocurre y lo que se le ocurre. Comienza a frecuentar el bar del barrio y está casi enamorado de la camarera. Y va tambié;n a la librería de segunda mano de Harry Brightman, un homosexual culto que no es quien dice ser. Y allí se encuentra con Tom, su sobrino, el hijo de su amada hermana muerta. El joven había sido un universitario brillante. Y ahora, solitario, conduce un taxi y ayuda a Brightman a clasificar sus libros... Poco a poco, Nathan irá descubriendo que no ha venido a Brooklyn a morir, sino a vivir.
City of Glass (The New York Trilogy, #1)
Paul Auster
Nominated for an Edgar award for best mystery of the year, City of Glass inaugurates an intriguing New York Trilogy of novels that The Washington Post Book World has classified as "post-existentialist private eye... It's as if Kafka has gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned his own ever-spiraling version." As a result of a strange phone call in the middle of the night, Quinn, a writer of detective stories, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than any he might have written. Written with hallucinatory clarity, City of Glass combines dark humor with Hitchcock-like suspense. Ghosts and The Locked Room are the next two brilliant installments in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy.
Creía que mi padre era Dios
Paul Auster
PAUL AUSTER INVITÓ A LOS OYENTES DEL PROGRAMA DE RADIO EN QUE COLABORABA A PARTICIPAR EN UN PROYECTO INUSUAL: ENVIAR SUS HISTORIAS VERÍDICAS, CON EL AFÁN DE CONSTRUIR UN RETRATO ESCRITO DE LA VIDA ESTADOUNIDENSE MÁS INSÓLITA. EL ESCRITOR SELECCIONÓ, CON SU PECULIAR MIRADA, CIENTO OCHENTA TEXTOS QUE FABULAN UNA REALIDAD LLENA DE COINCIDENCIAS, HALLAZGOS Y SITUACIONES TAN ABSURDAS QUE PARECEN INVENTADAS. CREÍA QUE MI PADRE ERA DIOS ES UNA ANTOLOGÍA DE RELATOS REALES Y EXTRAORDINARIOS, UNA SELECCIÓN DEL AUTOR QUE ES UN REFLEJO DE LOS TEMAS QUE RECORREN TODA SU OBRA, COMO EL AZAR, LA COINCIDENCIA Y LO INSÓLITO DE LA VIDA COTIDIANA. -TESTIMONIOS INOLVIDABLES DE RESISTENCIA HUMANA.- US WEEKLY -UNA VENTANA A LA MENTE Y EL CORAZÓN ESTADOUNIDENSES.- THE DAILY NEWS
Creía que mi padre era Dios: Relatos verídicos de la vida americana
Paul Auster
Una propuesta inusual: Paul Auster invitó a los oyentes a participar en un programa de radio contando una historia verdadera. La respuesta fue abrumadora: más de cuatro mil relatos de los que Auster seleccionó ciento ochenta, y que componen un volumen extraordinario. La mayoría de las historias son intensos fragmentos narrativos que combinan sucesos ordinarios y extraordinarios. Unas son divertidas, como la historia de cómo el perro de un miembro del Ku Klux Klan apareció corriendo por la calle durante el desfile anual del Klan y le arrebató la capucha a su amo. Otras son misteriosas, como la historia de una mujer que vio cómo un pollo blanco caminaba por una calle de Portland, Oregón, subía a saltos los escalones de un porche, llamaba a la puerta y entraba tranquilamente en la casa.
Diario d'inverno
Paul Auster
«Piaceri fisici e dolori fisici. I piaceri del sesso innanzitutto, ma anche quelli del mangiare e del bere, di stare nudo in un bagno caldo, di grattarti un prurito, di starnutire e di scoreggiare, di stare a letto un'ora in più, di voltare la faccia verso il sole in un mite pomeriggio di tarda primavera o d'inizio estate e sentire il tepore posarsi sulla pelle».
Quando sei perso, guardati intorno. Dubita di tutto e cancellalo. Hai una sola certezza: tu sei lì. Lo sei perché c'è il tuo corpo e tu sei il tuo corpo. Il tuo corpo è lo spazio che hai attraversato, ma anche il tempo che ti ha reso ciò che sei. Il tempo te lo porti scritto addosso: le cicatrici sono parole (questa racconta di quando bambino scivolasti così vicino a un chiodo da poterne rimanere cieco, quest'altra ti ricorda di quando quasi uccidesti tua moglie e tua figlia) e le parole sono cicatrici (quelle che ti disse tua madre dopo che la sentisti parlare al telefono con un uomo che non era tuo padre). Ma non c'è solo il dolore. C'è il piacere, tutto il piacere che hai vissuto, che ti ha travolto in questi sessantaquattro anni: da quello che provi guardando il collo di tua moglie al mattino, a quello che ti insegnò una prostituta nel Quartiere Latino quando tu, ventenne solitario e senza un soldo a Parigi, l'ascoltasti sbalordito recitare a memoria una poesia di Baudelaire. E infine il corpo da cui il tuo corpo ha iniziato a esistere, quello di tua madre. La sua storia e il tuo rapporto con lei sono il cuore pulsante di questo libro (una sorta di doppio, di gemello segreto del tuo L'invenzione della solitudine, dov'era il padre il fulcro dell'ossessione). Hai capito dal silenzio con cui hai accolto la notizia della sua morte e dalla crisi di panico che ne è seguita - fu come sentire il tuo stesso corpo fuggire da te - che qualcosa era cambiato, che dovevi fermarti a ricapitolare. Che eri entrato nell'inverno della vita.
Die New York-Trilogie
Paul Auster
Jeder der drei Romane der "New York-Trilogiee" wirkt zunächst wie eine klassische, spannungsgeladene Kriminalgeschichte, die den Leser mit raffiniert ausgelegten "Ködern" in den Bann zieht. Aber bald scheinen die vordergründig logischen Zusammenhänge nicht mehr zu stimmen. Die Rollen der Täter und der Opfer, der Verfolger und der Verfolgten verschieben sich auf rätselhafte Weise. Schritt für Schritt wird der Beobachter - der Detektiv, Autor, Leser - aus seiner sicheren Distanz gelockt und in ein Spiel mit seinen eigenen Erwartungen verstrickt.
El Cuaderno Rojo: Historias verdaderas
Paul Auster
El azar, las coincidencias y la casualidad han regido la vida y la escritura de Paul Auster. El cuaderno rojo engloba cuatro historias en las que el autor cuenta la vinculación entre su obra y su vida, cómo en el origen de la creación está su propia experiencia, una inspiración que le brinda el destino. El cuaderno rojo explora los sucesos reales trágicos y cómicos que, hilvanados por el azar, revelan lo impredecible de la naturaleza humana. Ésta es la compilación definitiva del puro idioma Auster.
El cuento de Navidad de Auggie Wren
Paul Auster
Un día, Paul Auster recibe el encargo del New York Times de escribir un cuento navideño. Abrumado por la tarea ("¿Qué sabía yo acerca de la Navidad?", se pregunta), decide que la narración que es-criba huirá de la común sensiblería que impregna esa época. En busca de inspiración, sale a pasear y acude al bar de Brooklyn regentado por su amigo Auggie Wren, un peculiar fotógrafo que retrata, diariamente, la misma esquina del barrio y el paso del tiempo. Será él quien ofrezca al autor esta peculiar historia, que comienza con el hallazgo casual de una billetera perdida, y que fue la semilla del guión de la película Smoke.
El libro de las ilusiones
Paul Auster
David Zimmer, un escritor y profesor de literatura de Vermont, se pasa los días bebiendo y cavilando sobre el minuto aquel en que su mujer y sus hijos todavía no habían subido al avión que estalló. Una noche, por primera vez en seis meses, algo lo hace reír. El causante es Hector Mann, uno de los últimos cómicos del cine mudo. David escribe y publica un libro sobre Mann, un brillante y enigmático cómico nacido en Argentina, que hace sesenta años se desvaneció sin que se supiera nada más de él. Tres meses después, Zimmer recibe una carta de una mujer que afirma ser la esposa de Hector Mann, y lo invita a verlos, a ella y a su marido, en Tierra del Sueño, Nuevo México...
El país de las últimas cosas
Paul Auster
Anna Blume cuenta en una carta a su novio, enviada desde una ciudad sin nombre, lo que sucede en el país de las ultimas cosas. Anna esta allí para buscar a su hermano William, y describe una tierra en la que la búsqueda de la muerte ha reemplazado a los avatares y negocios de la vida: las clínicas de eutanasia y los clubes para el asesinato florecen, mientras que los atletas y corredores no se detienen hasta caer literalmente muertos de cansancio, y los saltadores se arrojan de los tejados. Pero Anna intentará sobrevivir en ese país devastado, donde todo lo que existe es posiblemente el último ejemplar de su especie.
Follie di Brooklyn
Paul Auster
Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Glass encounters his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, who is working in a local bookstore -- a far cry from the brilliant academic career Tom had begun when Nathan saw him last. Tom's boss is the colorful and charismatic Harry Brightman -- aka Harry Dunkel -- once the owner of a Chicago art gallery, whom fate has also brought to the "ancient kingdom of Brooklyn, New York." Through Tom and Harry, Nathan's world gradually broadens to include a new circle of acquaintances -- not to mention a stray relative or two -- and leads him to a reckoning with his past.
With The Brooklyn Follies, the always astonishing Paul Auster has written what is undoubtedly his warmest, most exuberant novel, a moving, unforgettable hymn to the glories and mysteries of ordinary human life.
Ghosts (The New York Trilogy, #2)
Paul Auster
White hires Blue, a New York City private detective, to keep an eye on Black, but eventually Blue finds his own life in danger
Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure
Paul Auster
Paul Auster's Hand to Mouth A Chronicle of Early Failure is a fascinating and often funny memoir about his early years as a writer struggling to be published, and to make enough money to survive. Leaving high school with "itchy feet" and refusing to play it safe, Auster avoided convention and the double life of steady office employment while writing. From the streets of New York City, Dublin, and Paris to a surreal adventure in a dusty village in Mexico, Auster's account of living on next to nothing introduces an unforgettable cast of characters while examining what it means to be a writer.
Hayaletler
Paul Auster
Mavi, bir özel dedektif. Müşterisi Beyaz için Turuncu Cadde’de oturan Siyah’ı izleyip hakkında ayrıntılı rapor yazmaya çalışıyor. İnsanların sadece renklerle var olduğu, kimin gerçek, kimin hayal ürünü ya da hayalet olduğu anlaşılmayan bir ortamda gerilim yaratan olaylar sonunda Mavi, neredeyse Siyah’ın yaşamı içinde kaybolma noktasına geliyor. Bir başkasını izleme teması üzerine kurulu polisiye roman şablonu bu kitapta kişinin kendi kendini izlemesi sonucuna vararak genel geçer klişenin dışında bir özgünlük taşıyor. Kişilerin benlik arayışları ve gerçek arasındaki ilişkiler, Paul Auster’ın akıcı diliyle hayata geçiyor.
Here and Now: Letters (2008-2011)
Paul Auster
The high-spirited correspondence between New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee Although Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee had been reading each other’s books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, “God willing, strike sparks off each other.”Here and Now is the result of that proposal: the epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friends. Over three years their letters touched on nearly every subject, from sports to fatherhood, film festivals to incest, philosophy to politics, from the financial crisis to art, death, family, marriage, friendship, and love. Their correspondence offers an intimate and often amusing portrait of these two men as they explore the complexities of the here and now and is a reflection of two sharp intellects whose pleasure in each other’s friendship is apparent on every page.
Homem na Escuridão
Paul Auster
E se a América não estivesse em guerra com o Iraque mas consigo própria? Nesta América, as Torres Gémeas não caíram e as eleições presidenciais de 2000 conduziram à secessão, com estado após estado a abandonar a união e uma sangrenta guerra civil a instalar-se. Este mundo paralelo é criado pela mente e coração perturbados de August Brill, um crítico literário vítima de insónias. Com 72 anos, Brill está a recuperar de um acidente de viação em casa da filha, no Vermont e, para afastar recordações que preferia esquecer - a morte da mulher e o violento assassinato do namorado da neta -, conta histórias a si próprio. Gradualmente, o que Brill tenta desesperadamente impedir insiste em ser contado. Com a neta a juntar-se-lhe de madrugada, ele arranja finalmente coragem para revisitar os seus piores dramas.
Chocante e apaixonante, Homem na Escuridão é o exemplar romance do nosso tempo, um livro que nos obriga a confrontar a escuridão da noite, celebrando a existência das pequenas alegrias do dia-a-dia num mundo capaz da mais grotesca violência.
Im Land der letzten Dinge
Paul Auster
A Journey in a post-apocolyptic urban street setting, possibly New York, where protagonist Anna Blume is searching for her brother, William.
In the Country of Last Things
Paul Auster
A dystopian epistolary novel. In the Country of Last Things takes the form of a letter from a young woman named Anna Blume to a childhood friend. Anna has ventured into an unnamed city that has collapsed into chaos and disorder. In this bleak environment, no industry takes place and most of the population collects garbage or scavenges for objects to resell. City governments are unstable and are concerned only with collecting human waste and corpses for fuel. Anna has entered the city to search for her brother William, a journalist, and it is suggested that the Blumes come from a world to the East which has not collapsed.
Invisibile
Paul Auster
Nel 1967, Adam Walker ha vent'anni e studia a New York; la sua unica aspirazione è diventare poeta. Durante una festa, conosce l'enigmatico e inquietante professore parigino Rudolf Born e la sua seducente fidanzata, Margot. Tra loro si instaura immediatamente un legame fatto di sottintesi, di cose dette e non dette: Rudolf sembra aver preso in simpatia il giovane e gli offre di ideare e curare una rivista letteraria che intende finanziare. Adam, dal canto suo, prova una forte attrazione per Margot con la quale, quando Born torna temporaneamente in Europa, si abbandona a cinque giorni di sesso. Scoperto il tradimento, Rudolf caccia Margot. Non mostra tuttavia risentimento nei confronti di Adam che, pur sconcertato da questa ambiguità, continua a frequentarlo: sino a quando, una sera, non assiste alla criminale esplosione della sua aggressività. Tormentato dai sensi di colpa per non avere tempestivamente avvisato la polizia e consapevole di aver vissuto un'esperienza che lo segnerà per sempre, trascorre l'estate in città con la sorella Gwyn: complici le loro solitudini e i loro lutti, i due riallacciano le fila di un legame profondo che li unisce sin dall'infanzia. All'inizio dell'autunno, Adam parte per Parigi, ufficialmente perché ha vinto una borsa di studio. Ma Parigi è anche la città in cui, sfuggendo alle autorità americane, è tornato a vivere Born. Adam sa bene che si dovrà così confrontare con la parte più nera e imperscrutabile della propria anima.
Invisible (Rough Cut)
Paul Auster
“One of America’s greatest novelists” dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story in his most passionate and surprising book to date
Sinuously 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.”
Invisível
Paul Auster
Sinuosamente construído em quatro partes entrecruzadas, o décimo quinto romance de Paul Auster começa em Nova Iorque, na Primavera de 1967, quando o jovem aspirante a poeta Adam Walker conhece Rudolf e Margot, um enigmático casal francês. O perverso triângulo amoroso que rapidamente se forma, conduz a um chocante e inesperado acto de violência cujas consequências serão irreversíveis.
Três narradores contam uma história que se desloca no tempo, de 1967 a 2007, e no espaço, à medida que viaja entre Nova Iorque, Paris e uma ilha remota nas Caraíbas. Invisível está imbuído de fúria, de sexualidade desenfreada e de uma busca implacável por justiça. É uma viagem através das fronteiras sombrias entre verdade e memória, criação e identidade. Uma obra inesquecível pela mão de um dos nomes cimeiros da literatura dos nossos dias.
I Thought My Father Was God and Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project
Paul Auster
The true-life stories in this unique collection provide "a window into the American mind and heart" ( The Daily News ). One hundred and eighty voices - male and female, young and old, from all walks of life and all over the country - talk intimately to the reader. Combining great humor and pathos this remarkable selection of stories from the thousands submitted to NPR's Weekend All Things Considered National Story Project gives the reader a glimpse of America's soul in all its diversity.
La notte dell'oracolo
Paul Auster
Dopo aver superato per miracolo una malattia che lo ha quasi ucciso, Sidney Orr, scrittore trentenne, ricomincia faticosamente a vivere. Un giorno, passeggiando per le vie di Brooklyn, entra per caso in una cartoleria e trova tra gli scaffali un taccuino blu di fabbricazione portoghese. È un oggetto solido, banale, senza frivolezze. Ma nel momento stesso in cui Sidney lo prende in mano sa che lo comprerà.
Con il taccuino blu Sidney si sente capace di ritornare a scrivere. E per i successivi nove giorni vive sotto l'incantesimo dell'ispirazione: scrive l'inizio di un romanzo, lavora a un trattamento cinematografico, butta giù alcune riflessioni su un tragico fatto di cronaca, e trova una possibile spiegazione ad alcuni fatti misteriosi che rischiano di distruggere la sua vita e quella di sua moglie, Grace.
A poco a poco la finzione lascia il passo alla realtà, le vicende del romanzo che Sidney ha iniziato a scrivere si dimostrano premonizioni enigmatiche e oracolari del futuro che lo aspetta. Grace gli ha sempre nascosto qualcosa, l'amico e scrittore John Trause gli ha sempre nascosto qualcosa, perfino il proprietario della cartoleria, l'inquietante Mr Chang, sembra nascondergli qualcosa.
Così Sidney si trasforma in detective e seguendo il consiglio di Trause ("Viviamo nel presente, ma il futuro è dentro di noi in ogni momento"), inizia a decifrare il mistero. E quando ormai la verità affiora in tutta la sua cruda violenza, Sidney decide, per amore di Grace, di rinunciare per sempre all'oracolo del taccuino blu.
La trilogía de Nueva York
Paul Auster
Empieza Ciudad de cristal, con un escritor de novela policiaca que, por azar, se ve actuando como un detective por las calles de la ciudad de los rascacielos mientras se cuestiona quién es en realidad. En Fantasmas, se conforma un laberinto de búsquedas que Azul, el detective, deberá desentrañar. En La habitación cerrada, el protagonista recibe el encargo de buscar a un amigo de la infancia desaparecido que ha dejado una maleta llena de manuscritos inéditos que deseaba que fueran publicados, por razones un tanto confusas.En las obras de Paul Auster, los acontecimientos se precipitan tras sucesos de una naturaleza, aparentemente, insignificante: lo pequeño marca la diferencia y el azar condiciona las decisiones. La investigación de lo otro se convierte en la búsqueda de uno mismo, en el afán de hallar una identidad propia y distintiva.
Leviatano
Paul Auster
Benjamin Sachs è uno scrittore di talento, invidiato per un matrimonio quasi perfetto e una vita di soddisfazioni. Ma a un certo punto, nella sua vita, si innesca un imprevedibile concatenarsi di eventi che porteranno alla cruda notizia riportata da un quotidiano: «Sei giorni fa un uomo si è fatto saltare in aria sul ciglio di una strada in Wisconsin». Dietro la brutalità del fatto di cronaca, un caro amico di Sachs, Peter Aaron, riconosce la notizia della morte dello scrittore misteriosamente scomparso. Cosí tassello dopo tassello, ne ricostruisce pazientemente gli ultimi sconclusionati anni. E come spesso succede nei romanzi di Paul Auster, quel che dalla narrazione emerge è quanto la vita di ciascuno sia in totale balía del caso.
Leviathan
Paul Auster
New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy) opens Leviathan with the tearing of a bomb explosion and the death of one Benjamin Sachs. Ben’s one-time best friend, Peter Aaron, begins to retrospectively investigate the transformation that led Ben from his enviable stable life, to one of a recluse. Both were once intelligent, yet struggling novelists until Ben’s near-death experience falling from a fire escape triggers a tumble in which he becomes withdrawn and disturbed, living alone and building bombs in a far-off cabin. That is, until he mysteriously disappears, leaving behind only a manuscript titled Leviathan, pages rustling in the wind.
L'invention de la solitude
Paul Auster
« Avant même d'avoir préparé nos bagages et entrepris les trois heures de route vers le New Jersey, je savais qu'il me faudrait écrire à propos de mon père... »
Pour l'auteur-narrateur, la mort brutale de son père sonne l'heure d'une confrontation fondamentale, qui va mettre aux prises l'écriture et la mémoire, l'écriture et la vie.
Récit et roman, quête promise à l'échec d'un « homme invisible » éloigné par la mort, mais aussi d'une blessure intime, L'invention de la solitude est le texte-source d'un des écrivains les plus marquants de la littérature américaine d'aujourd'hui.
L'invenzione della solitudine
Paul Auster
Qualche settimana dopo l'inattesa morte del padre, Paul Auster, si ritrova nella grande casa ormai deserta di un uomo che per tutta la vita aveva vissuto caparbiamente distaccato dal mondo e dagli affetti. E accostando i frammenti sparsi di un'esistenza pressoché estranea, facendo lo spoglio delle carte e degli oggetti personali di quel padre che era sempre parso distante e sfuggente, Auster si imbatte nelle testimonianze di un lontano delitto che aveva scosso la vita della famiglia all'inizio del secolo. Se nel Ritratto di un uomo invisibile, la prima parte de L'invenzione della solitudine, Paul Auster veste i panni del figlio, nella seconda, Il libro della memoria, la sua attenzione si sposta sulla sua identità di padre. E attraverso un mosaico di immagini, coincidenze e associazioni, «A» riflette su come il caso impercettibilmente governi le nostre vite, sulla natura solitaria dello scrivere e l'inevitabile distacco che lo separa dal figlio Daniel.
Un delicato ritratto di famiglia, tutto giocato sul filo della memoria, una commossa riflessione sulla difficoltà di essere figli e padri.
Man in the Dark
Paul Auster
Man in the Dark is Paul Auster’s brilliant, devastating novel about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us.
Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter’s house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget—his wife’s recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter’s boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union and a bloody civil war ensued. As the night progresses, Brill’s story grows increasingly intense, and what he is so desperately trying to avoid insists on being told. Joined in the early hours by his granddaughter, he gradually opens up to her and recounts the story of his marriage. After she falls asleep, he at last finds the courage to revisit the trauma of Titus’s death.
Passionate and shocking, Man in the Dark is a novel of our moment, a book that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence.
*Time Out (Chicago)
Moon Palace
Paul Auster
Marco Stanley Fogg is an orphan, a child of the sixties, a quester tirelessly seeking the key to his past, the answers to the ultimate riddle of his fate. As Marco sets out on a journey from the canyons of Manhattan to the deserts of Utah, he encounters a gallery of characters and a series of events as rich and surprising as any in modern fiction.
Beginning during the summer that men first walked on the moon, and moving backward and forward in time to span three generations, Moon Palace is propelled by coincidence and memory, and illuminated by marvelous flights of lyricism and wit. Here is the most entertaining and moving novel yet from an author well known for his breathtaking imagination.
Mr. Vertigo
Paul Auster
"Tinha doze anos quando caminhei sobre as águas pela primeira vez."
Assim começa a história de Walter Claireborne Rawley, conhecido em toda a América como o Rapaz Prodígio. Estamos no final dos anos 20, a era de Al Capone, Charles Lindbergh e Babe Ruth. Walter é um órfão resgatado das ruas pelo misterioso Mestre Yehudi, que o alicia com a promessa de o ensinar a voar. Um desafio às leis da Natureza que os coloca numa situação peculiar perante o Homem, Deus e o Universo.
Unidos por tão bizarra combinação de espiritualidade e mundanismo, mestre e discípulo percorrerão uma vasta e vibrante América, onde se cruzam com pecadores, ladrões e vilões, desde o Ku Klux Klan do Kansas até à máfia de Chicago. A ascensão de Walt à fama e à fortuna espelha, em última instância, a passagem da América à maioridade; a capacidade de adaptação e resistência de ambos é constantemente posta à prova, numa história que podia ser a de cada um de nós.
Num romance que contempla com naturalidade o lado mágico e improvável da vida, é-nos revelado um segredo: voar, afinal, é fácil.
Mr. Vértigo
Paul Auster
El deseo de volar. Un huérfano de nueve años. La ciudad de Saint Louis. Los años veinte. Un judío de origen húngaro, mitad místico, mitad prestidigitador. Una granja perdida en las praderas de Kansas. Ritos iniciáticos. Una anciana india que trabajó en el espectáculo de Buffalo Bill. Un joven etíope. El Ku Klux Klan. Las ferias, los circos. El despertar de la sexualidad. La Depresión. Hollywood. Los gángsters de Chicago. Un jugador de béisbol en decadencia. La Segunda Guerra Mundial. El fin de la pubertad... Y un anciano que recuerda.
Ésta es la historia de Walt, el niño al que el Maestro Yehudi enseñó a levitar y a volar. La historia de un adolescente que se convierte en adulto y pierde la magia. La historia de un hombre que trata desesperadamente de reencontrar el sentido de su existencia. La historia de un país, Estados Unidos, desde los «felices años veinte» hasta la dura posguerra. Una vez más, Paul Auster, dueño de una prosa admirable y de una poderosa imaginación, logra atrapar y fascinar al lector con una novela que toma como punto de partida uno de los más ancestrales sueños del ser.
Nel paese delle ultime cose
Paul Auster
Anna Blume era partita alla ricerca del fratello giornalista, scomparso senza lasciare traccia durante un reportage, ed è approdata nel Paese delle ultime cose: ormai per lei e per tutti non c'è piú possibilità di salvezza, di fuga. La definitiva catastrofe si è compiuta ma nonostante tutto Anna resiste e si aggrappa a tutte le sue forze per sopravvivere salvando in qualche luogo della sua coscienza una traccia di irrinunciabile umanità, una testimonianza di amicizia, persino d'amore. E con essa la voglia di raccontare e conservare la memoria di quanto accaduto affinché anche gli altri sappiano.
Con evidenti richiami alla letteratura fantastica, al noir, ma anche appellandosi alla nostra storia recente, Nel paese delle ultime cose è un tour de force crudo e affascinante che rivela via via la sua intenzione provocatoria: scrivere il romanzo del ventesimo secolo, le tappe di un viaggio infernale con i suoi moderni dannati.
Oracle Night
Paul Auster
The discovery of a mysterious notebook turns a man's life upside-down in this compulsively readable novel by 'one of the great writers of our time' ( San Francisco Chronicle ).
Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in 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 bewildering events that threaten to destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality.
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. 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.
Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy: City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room
Paul Auster
The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness.
In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it means to be human. Auster's book is modern fiction at its finest: bold, arresting and unputdownable.
Report from the Interior
Paul Auster
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
Sunset Park
Paul Auster
Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force, Sunset Park follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse.
An enigmatic young man employed as a trash-out worker in southern Florida obsessively photographing thousands of abandoned objects left behind by the evicted families.
A group of young people squatting in an apartment in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
The Hospital for Broken Things, which specializes in repairing the artifacts of a vanished world.
William Wyler's 1946 classic The Best Years of Our Lives.
A celebrated actress preparing to return to Broadway.
An independent publisher desperately trying to save his business and his marriage.
These are just some of the elements Auster magically weaves together in this immensely moving novel about contemporary America and its ghosts. Sunset Park is a surprising departure that confirms Paul Auster as one of our greatest living writers.
The Book of Illusions
Paul Auster
Six months after losing his wife and two young sons, Vermont Professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then one night, he stumbles upon a clip from a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann. His interest is piqued, and he soon finds himself embarking on a journey around the world to research a book on this mysterious figure, who vanished from sight back in 1929.
When the book is published the following year, a letter turns up in Zimmer’s mailbox bearing a return address from a small town in New Mexico inviting him to meet Hector. Zimmer hesitates, until one night a strange woman appears on his doorstep and makes the decision for him, changing his life forever.
The Brooklyn Follies
Paul Auster
Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Glass encounters his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, who is working in a local bookstore—a far cry from the brilliant academic career Tom had begun when Nathan saw him last. Tom's boss is the colorful and charismatic Harry Brightman—a.k.a. Harry Dunkel—once the owner of a Chicago art gallery, whom fate has also brought to the "ancient kingdom of Brooklyn, New York." Through Tom and Harry, Nathan's world gradually broadens to include a new circle of acquaintances. He soon finds himself drawn into a scam involving a forged page of The Scarlet Letter, and begins to undertake his own literary venture, The Book of Human Folly, an account of "every blunder, every pratfall, every embarrassment, every idiocy, every foible, and every inane act I have committed during my long and checkered career as a man." The Brooklyn Follies is Paul Auster's warmest, most exuberant novel, a moving, unforgettable hymn to the glories and mysteries of ordinary human life.
The Brooklyn Follies: A Novel
Paul Auster
Nathan Glass a soixante ans. Un divorce, un cancer en rémission, trente ans de carrière dans une compagnie d'assurances à Manhattan et une certaine solitude qui ne l'empêche pas d'aborder le dernier versant de son existence avec sérénité. Chaque jour, Brooklyn et ses habitants le séduisent davantage, il prend ses habitudes, tombe sous le charme d'une serveuse et décide de faire un livre dans lequel seraient consignés ses souvenirs, ses lapsus, ses faiblesses de langage, ses grandes et petites histoires mais aussi celles des gens qu'il a croisés, rencontrés ou aimés. Un matin de printemps, le 23 mai de l'an 2000, ce livre intitulé Le livre de la folie humaine prend une autre dimension. Ce jour-là, dans une librairie, Nathan Glass retrouve son neveu Tom Wood. Perdu de vue depuis longtemps, ce garçon de trente ans reprend très vite la place qui fut la sienne dans le cœur de son oncle. Et c'est ensemble qu'ils vont poursuivre leur histoire, partager leurs émotions, leurs faiblesses, leurs utopies mais aussi et surtout, le rêve d'une vie meilleure à l'hôtel Existence... Un livre sur le désir d'aimer. Un roman chaleureux, à travers lequel tous les grands thèmes austériens se répondent, où les personnages reprennent leur vie en main, choisissent leur destin, vivent le meilleur des choses - mais pour combien de temps encore, en Amérique ?
The Invention of Solitude
Paul Auster
In this debut work by New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy), The Invention of Solitude, a memoir, established Auster’s reputation as a major new voice in American writing. His moving and personal meditation on fatherhood is split into two stylistically separate sections. In the first, Auster reflects on the memories of his father who was a distant, undemonstrative, and cold man who died an untimely death. As he sifts through his Father’s things, Auster uncovers a sixty-year-old murder mystery that sheds light on his father’s elusive character. In the second section, the perspective shifts and Auster begins to reflect on his own identity as a father by adopting the voice of a narrator, “A.” Through a mosaic of images, coincidences, and associations “A,” contemplates his separation from his son, his dying grandfather, turning the story into a self-conscious reflection on the process of writing.
The Locked Room (The New York Trilogy, #3)
Paul Auster
When Fanshawe disappears, leaving behind a wife, a baby and an extraordinary cache of novels, plays and poems, his boyhood friend is lured obsessively into the life that Fanshawe left behind.
The Music of Chance
Paul Auster
In a Pennsylvania meadow, a young fireman and an angry gambler are forced to build a wall of fifteenth-century stone. For Jim Nashe, it all started when he came into a small inheritance and left Boston in pusuit of "a life of freedom." Careening back and forth across the United States, waiting for the money to run out, Nashe met Jack Pozzi, a young man with a temper and a plan. With Nashe's last funds, they entered a poker game against two rich eccentrics, "risking everything on the single turn of a card." In Paul Auster's world of fiendish bargains and punitive whims, where chance is a shifting and powerful force, there is redemption, nonetheless, in Nashe's resolute quest for justice and his capacity for love.
The New York Trilogy (New York Trilogy #1-3)
Paul Auster
The remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels – from the author of 4 3 2 1: A Novel
The New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster’s work “one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary literature.” Moving at the breathless pace of a thriller, this uniquely stylized triology of detective novels begins with City of Glass, in which Quinn, a mystery writer, receives an ominous phone call in the middle of the night. He’s drawn into the streets of New York, onto an elusive case that’s more puzzling and more deeply-layered than anything he might have written himself. In Ghosts, Blue, a mentee of Brown, is hired by White to spy on Black from a window on Orange Street. Once Blue starts stalking Black, he finds his subject on a similar mission, as well. In The Locked Room, Fanshawe has disappeared, leaving behind his wife and baby and nothing but a cache of novels, plays, and poems.
This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition includes an introduction from author and professor Luc Sante, as well as a pulp novel-inspired cover from Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic artist of Maus and In the Shadow of No Towers.
The Red Notebook: True Stories
Paul Auster
The Red Notebook brings together in one volume all of Paul Auster's short, true-life stories―a remarkable collection of tales that documents the curious, miraculous, and sometimes catastrophic turns of everyday reality. Paul Auster has earned international praise for the imaginative power of his many novels, including The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, Mr. Vertigo, and Timbuktu. He has also published a number of highly original non-fiction: The Invention of Solitude, Hand to Mouth, and The Art of Hunger. In The Red Notebook, Auster again explores events from the real world large and small, tragic and comic―that reveal the unpredictable, shifting nature of human experience. A burnt onion pie, a wrong number, a young boy struck by lightning, a man falling off a roof, a scrap of paper discovered in a Paris hotel room―all these form the context for a singular kind of ars poetica, a literary manifesto without theory, cast in the irreducible forms of pure story telling.
Timbuctù
Paul Auster
Abituati a viaggiare insieme sulle strade americane, Willy, poeta giramondo, e Mr Bones, cane dalla spiccata intelligenza, vengono separati dai freddi giochi del destino. Mr Bones dovrà imparare a cavarsela da solo e a difendersi anche da chi sembrerà volerlo aiutare. Così continuerà a fuggire, finché in lui si farà strada la convinzione di poter raggiungere Willy a Timbuctù, terra favolosa dove uomini e cani parlano la stessa lingua e conversano da pari a pari. Che cosa sia davvero Timbuctù, Mr Bones non lo sa, a parte qualche frase sibillina buttata lì da Willy nei suoi discorsi di poeta maledetto e infaticabile clochard. Eppure è proprio in quel luogo che un brutto giorno il poeta se n'è andato lasciando solo il fedele quadrupede.
Timbuktu
Paul Auster
Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's astonishing new book, is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant and troubled homeless man from Brooklyn. As Willy's body slowly expires, he sets off with Mr. Bones for Baltimore in search of his high school English teacher and a new home for his companion. Mr. Bones is our witness during their journey, and out of his thoughts, Paul Auster has spun one of the richest, most compelling tales in American fiction.
Cover photograph by Ann Giordano
Tombuctú
Paul Auster
Míster Bones es un perro de raza indefinida, pero de una inteligencia muy precisa. No habla inglés, pero tantos años escuchando el torrente verbal de su amo han hecho que lo comprenda a la perfección, y que pueda interpretar el mundo con una sensibilidad muy canina y una sintaxis muy humana. Ha vivido desde cachorro con William Gurevitch, un vagabundo, un poeta errante, un excéntrico superviviente de las revoluciones de los sesenta. Juntos recorrieron América, sobrevivieron a duros inviernos en Brooklyn y ahora están en Baltimore, viviendo la que quizá sea su última aventura en común...
Travels in the Scriptorium
Paul Auster
A man pieces together clues to his past--and the identity of his captors--in this fantastic, labyrinthine novelAn old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores over the relics on the desk, examining the circumstances of his confinement and searching his own hazy mind for clues.Determining that he is locked in, the man--identified only as Mr. Blank--begins reading a manuscript he finds on the desk, the story of another prisoner, set in an alternate world the man doesn't recognize. Nevertheless, the pages seem to have been left for him, along with a haunting set of photographs. As the day passes, various characters call on the man in his cell--vaguely familiar people, some who seem to resent him for crimes he can't remember--and each brings frustrating hints of his identity and his past. All the while an overhead camera clicks and clicks, recording his movements, and a microphone records every sound in the room. Someone is watching.Both chilling and poignant, Travels in the Scriptorium is vintage Auster: mysterious texts, fluid identities, a hidden past, and, somewhere, an obscure tormentor. And yet, as we discover during one day in the life of Mr. Blank, his world is not so different from our own.
Trilogia di New York
Paul Auster
In una città stravolta e allucinata, in cui ogni cosa si confonde e chiunque è sostituibile, i protagonisti di queste storie conducono ciascuno un'inchiesta misteriosa e dall'esito imprevedibile. Tutto può cominciare con una telefonata nel cuore della notte, come nel caso di Daniel Quinn (Città di vetro), autore di romanzi polizieschi che accetta la sfida che gli si presenta e si cala nei panni di un detective sconosciuto. Ma può anche capitare che chi debba pedinare si senta a sua volta pedinato (Fantasmi); o, ancora, che ci sia qualcuno che s'immedesima a tal punto nella vita di un amico da sposarne la vedova e adottarne il figlio... (
Trilogia di New York. Città di vetro - Fantasmi - La stanza chiusa
Paul Auster
In una città stravolta e allucinata, in cui ogni cosa si confonde e chiunque è sostituibile, i protagonisti di queste storie conducono ciascuno un'inchiesta misteriosa e dall'esito imprevedibile. Tutto può cominciare con una telefonata nel cuore della notte, come nel caso di Daniel Quinn (Città di vetro), autore di romanzi polizieschi che accetta la sfida che gli si presenta e si cala nei panni di un detective sconosciuto. Ma può anche capitare che chi debba pedinare si senta a sua volta pedinato (Fantasmi); o, ancora, che ci sia qualcuno che s'immedesima a tal punto nella vita di un amico da sposarne la vedova e adottarne il figlio...
Trilogia di New York. Città di vetro, Fantasmi, La stanza chiusa
Paul Auster
In una città stravolta e allucinata, in cui ogni cosa si confonde e chiunque è sostituibile, i protagonisti di queste storie conducono ciascuno un'inchiesta misteriosa e dall'esito imprevedibile. Tutto può cominciare con una telefonata nel cuore della notte, come nel caso di Daniel Quinn (Città di vetro), autore di romanzi polizieschi che accetta la sfida che gli si presenta e si cala nei panni di un detective sconosciuto. Ma può anche capitare che chi debba pedinare si senta a sua volta pedinato (Fantasmi); o, ancora, che ci sia qualcuno che s'immedesima a tal punto nella vita di un amico da sposarne la vedova e adottarne il figlio... (La stanza chiusa). Tre detective-stories eccentriche e avvincenti in cui Paul Auster inventa una sua New York fantastica, un «nessun luogo» in cui ciascuno può ritrovarsi e perdersi all'infinito.
Ed è proprio nell'invenzione di questa solitudine che i personaggi della Trilogia misurano il proprio io e scoprono il loro vero destino.
Una vita in parole: Dialogo con I.B. Siegumfeldt
Paul Auster
Ogni libro per Paul Auster possiede una sua musica segreta la cui partitura affiora insieme alle parole. Ma di chi sono le dita che muovono i tasti da cui la musica si sprigiona? Nessuno può dire da dove arrivi un libro, e può dirlo meno di tutti il suo autore. Scrive così Paul Auster in Leviatano, ed è ancora convinto che sia la verità. E infatti quando lui e I.B. Siegumfeldt s’incontrano la prima volta, sembra scettico all’idea di concederle una lunga intervista che ripercorra l’intera sua carriera. Ma, come è noto quando si tratta di Auster, la verità ha molte sfumature, e cosí alla fine decide che forse è giunto il momento di parlare della propria arte, e apre alla sua interlocutrice le porte della sua casa e della sua immaginazione. È l’inizio di due anni d’interviste, che ci restituiscono una biografia costruita libro su libro eppure piena di vita. Un appassionante viaggio letterario e umano attraverso l’ispirazione, le ossessioni e le passioni che abitano l’opera di un grande scrittore.
Un hombre en la oscuridad
Paul Auster
August Brill ha sufrido un accidente de coche y se está recuperando en casa de su hija, en Vermont. No puede dormir, e inventa historias en la oscuridad. En una de ellas, Owen Brick, un joven mago que ha adoptado el nombre artístico del Gran Zavello, despierta en el fondo de un foso de paredes muy lisas que no puede escalar. No sabe dónde está ni cómo ha llegado hasta allí, pero oye el ruido de una batalla. Hasta que aparece el sargento Serge, que le ayuda a salir del pozo para que Brick pueda cumplir su misión. América está inmersa en una oscura guerra civil. Los atentados del once de septiembre no han tenido lugar, y tampoco la guerra de Irak. Y el joven mago descubre que los Estados Unidos combaten desde hace tiempo, pero contra ellos mismos. Unos cuantos estados -ahora desunidos- han declarado la independencia.
Viagens No Scriptorium (Em Portugues do Brasil)
Paul Auster
Fechado num pequeno quarto e vigiado o tempo todo por câmeras e microfones, um homem de certa idade busca reconstituir sua memória. Ele não sabe onde está - hospital, prisão, asilo? - e muito menos o que faz ali. Todos os dias recebe a visita de uma enfermeira que lhe desperta lembranças imprecisas e dolorosas e, mais esporadicamente, de um ex-policial. Aos poucos, descobre que no passado foi alguém com o poder de enviar pessoas a missões difíceis e perigosas das quais muitas não voltaram com vida.
Sobre a escrivaninha do quarto o homem encontra um manuscrito inacabado. É a história de um agente de uma grande potência, numa época indeterminada, que ultrapassa clandestinamente a fronteira entre seu país e as terras bárbaras a fim de investigar uma possível insurreição dos povos independentes.
Winterjournal
Paul Auster
Dies ist ein ungewöhnliches, überraschendes Buch: eine Lebensbeichte ganz aus der Warte des Körpers. 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 sein Körper und seine Glieder im Verlauf eines langen Lebens getan haben. Er sinniert über die unendliche Empfindlichkeit jenes physischen Systems, das uns am Leben erhält und über das wir so wenig nachdenken, solange es funktioniert. Er lässt seine Liebesbeziehungen Revue passieren: viele zunächst und dann – dreißig Jahre lang – nur noch eine, die große Liebe. Die Kinder, ihr Aufwachsen, ihre Selbständigkeit. Die Blessuren, die Krankheiten, einige Begegnungen mit dem Tod: ein Sturz als Junge, eine Herzattacke, ein Autounfall. Alkohol, Zigarillos, Süchte – all die Versuchungen, das System des Körpers auszutricksen, sich dem Verfall, dem Alltag zu entziehen … «Winterjournal» ist eine emotional mitreißende, einen mit den ersten Zeilen packende Autobiographie, aber keine konventionelle, sondern höchste literarische Kunst: voll philosophischer Betrachtungen, poetischer Impressionen und intimer Einsichten – in Paul Austers persönlichen Arbeiten nach «Die Erfindung der Einsamkeit» ein weiterer Höhepunkt.
Winter Journal
Paul Auster
From the bestselling novelist and author of The Invention of Solitude , a moving and highly personal meditation on the body, time, and language itself " That is where the story begins, in your body, and everything will end in the body as well. Facing his sixty-third winter, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations―both pleasurable and painful. Thirty years after the publication of The Invention of Solitude , in which he wrote so movingly about fatherhood, Auster gives us a second unconventional memoir in which he writes about his mother's life and death. Winter Journal is a highly personal meditation on the body, time, and memory, by one of our most intellectually elegant writers.
ثلاثية نيويورك
Paul Auster
... هناك الرجل الذي يمضي في كل مكان بمجموعة من عصي قرع الطبول، لاطماً بها الرصيف بإيقاع طائش، عبثي، منحنياً على نحو مرتبك وهو يتقدم في الشارع ويقرع الإسمنت مراراً وتكراراً. وربما كان يحسب أنه يؤدي عملاً مهماً، ولو لم يقم بما هو عاكف عليه فلربما انهارت المدينة، وربما كان القمر سيخرج عن مداره، ويرتطم بالأرض. وهناك من يحادثون أنفسهم، ومن يدمدمون، ومن يصرخون، ومن يلعنون، ومن يتأوّهون ألماً، ومن يسردون على أنفسهم القصص وكأنهم يحكونها لشخص آخر. وهناك الرجل الذي رأيته اليوم جالسا وكأنه كومة من القمامة أمام محطة جراند سنترال، والحشود تنطلق متجاوزة إياه، وهو يقول بصوت عال مليء بالفزع: "فرقة المارينز الثالثة... التهام النحل... النحل يزحف خارجا من فمي". أو المرأة التي كانت تهتف برفيق خفي: "وماذا إذا لم أكن أريد ذلك! وماذا إذا لم أكن أريد ذلك"!
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