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Miles Heller ten vinte e oito anos, abandonou a universidade aos vinte, despediuse dos seus pais e marchou de Nova York. Agora vive en Florida e traballa para unha empresa que se encarga de baleirar as vivendas dos desafiuzados. Mais non so se dedica a carretar mobles e repintar paredes, Miles saca fotos de todas as cosas abandonadas para probar que as pantasmas desa xente seguen presentes. En Sunset Park, Auster fainos lembrar as cousas duradeiras: o amor, a arte e esa estraña sensacion que e estar vivo. O seu protagonista, Miles, vive atormentado pola culpa: sen querelo provocou a morte do seu medio irman, unha situacion que o induciu a marchar de Nova York fuxindo do pai e a madrasta. En Florida manten unha relacion cunha escolar adolescente, Pilar, mais cando a familia dela ameaza con sacar a luz o noivado, Miles decide protexer a Pilar volvendo a Brooklyn, onde comeza a vivir de ocupa mentres se prepara para a inevitable confrontacion co pai, de quen leva anos escondido. Vibrando coa mesma enerxia ca Invisible, a anterior novela de Auster, o relato de Sunset Park e tan mitico coma contemporaneo, esta tan engaiolado polo beisbol coma pola literatura. E, por riba de todo, e unha historia de amor e perdon, non so entre homes e mulleres, senon tamen entre pais e fillos.

Après la mort de sa femme et de ses enfants, David Zimmer était anéanti. S'il a pu échapper au désespoir, c'est grâce à l'écriture d'un livre consacré à Hector Mann, virtuose du cinéma muet porté disparu depuis 1929. Un soir, une jeune femme débarque chez lui en lui annonçant que Hector Mann lui-même le réclame de toute urgence sur son lit de mort. David se laisse entraîner dans un très long voyage… En racontant l'histoire de l'extraordinaire et mystérieux Hector Mann, Paul Auster nous emmène bien au-delà de la magie du cinéma muet et porte ce livre au cœur d'un univers envoûtant où la création artistique semble faire écho aux sentiments amoureux dans ce qu'ils ont de plus éphémère et de plus fragile, où la douleur de la perte et le besoin de filiation se répondent pour remettre en question l'idée même de mémoire.

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

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

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. 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 post-war fifties 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 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.

Cuando Jim Nashe es abandonado por su mujer, se lanza a la vida errante. Antes ha recibido una inesperada herencia de un padre al que nunca conoció 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, como otros personajes caros a Auster, experimenta la gozosa y desgarradora seduccion del desarraigo absoluto. Tras un año de esta vida, y cuando apenas le quedan diez mil dolares de los doscientos mil que heredara, conoce a Jack Pozzi, un jovencisimo jugador profesional de poquer. Los dos hombres entablan una peculiar relacion y Jim Nashe se constituye en el socio capitalista de Pozzi. Una sola sesion de poquer podria hacerles ricos. Sus contrincantes seran Flower y Stone, dos curiosos millonarios que han ganado una fabulosa fortuna jugando a la loteria y viven juntos como dos modernos Bouvard y Pecuchet. A partir de ahi, de la mano de los dos excentricos, amables en un principio y progresivamente ominosos despues, la novela abandona en un sutil giro el territorio de la novela de la carretera americana, del pastiche chandleriano, y se interna en el dominio de la literatura gotica europea. Un gotico moderno, entre Kafka y Beckett.Esplendida novela. Como los buenos novelistas de genero, Auster crea adiccion. No cuenta siempre la misma historia, pero si se dedica a construir variaciones sobre el mismo tema: los efectos del azar sobre las vidas de las personas (Ramon de España, El Pais).Edicion limitada en tapa dura.

"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".

Trente ans après L'Invention de la solitude, Paul Auster pose sur son existence le regard du sexagénaire qu'il est devenu. Bien loin, cependant, du journal intime ou du classique récit autobiographique, cette Chronique d'hiver aborde la méditation sur la fuite du temps sous l'angle du compagnonnage que tout individu entretient avec son propre corps. C'est en effet de respiration, de sensation, de jouissance ou de souffrance, d'épiphanies charnelles ou de confrontations plus ou moins traumatiques avec la matière du monde qu'il est question à travers l'évocation, à la deuxième personne, d'un simple petit Américain du nom de Paul Auster, né dans l'immédiat après-guerre, et requis d'apprivoiser les espaces et le temps qui lui ont été impartis. Dans ces pages aussi sincères que retenues, Paul Auster se décrit moins en littérateur qu'en acteur convoqué sur la scène troublée de l'existence pour y incarner, à son tour, toute l'ardeur des passions humaines. De cet homme-cicatrice dont le corps exulte ou somatise, de ce fils hanté par la mort prématurée de son père et tourmenté par le destin chaotique de sa mère, de l'heureux citoyen de Brooklyn, époux et père aujourd'hui comblé, de cet héritier d'une lointaine Europe, amateur de base-ball, fumeur invétéré et romancier fécond, de cet homme, enfin, qui souffre de ne pouvoir ou de ne savoir pleurer, le lecteur entendra ici le "grain de la voix" surgissant du savant puzzle où se déconstruit toute représentation univoque du moi afin que se produise, sous le signe d'une humanité partagée, la plus loyale des rencontres.