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Nathan Glass a soixante ans. Une longue carrière dans une compagnie d''assurances à Manhattan, un divorce, un cancer en rémission et une certaine solitude ne l''empêchent pas d''aborder le dernier ve

Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident. Plagued by insomnia, he tries to push back thoughts of things he would prefer to forget - his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus - by telling himself stories. This novel celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a brutal world.

La novel·la gràfica _Ciutat de vidre_ de Paul Auster, apareix per primera vegada en llengua catalana. Angle Editorial publica en català una obra de culte, la millor adaptació gràfica d'una de les mil

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.

The New York Trilogy is perhaps the most astonishing work by one of America's most consistently astonishing writers. The Trilogy is 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. It is a riveting work of detective fiction worthy of Raymond Chandler, and at the same time a profound and unsettling existentialist enquiry in the tradition of Kafka or Borges. 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. The New York Trilogy is the modern novel at its finest: a truly bold and arresting work of fiction with something to transfix and astound every reader. "Marks a new departure for the American novel." (Observer). "A shatteringly clever piece of work...Utterly gripping, written with an acid sharpness that leaves an indelible dent in the back of the mind." (Sunday Telegraph). "The New York Trilogy established him as the only author one could compare to Samuel Beckett." (Guardian)

2011ko otsailean, Paul Auster idazle brooklyndarra bere bizitzaldiaren neguan sartzen hasia zela igarrita, bizitza horren kontakizunari ekin zion denboraren lerro kronologikoari jarraituz, jazoera batzuk, leku batzuk, eta egoera batzuk hautatuz.Austerren bizialdiak hartzen duen historiaren tarte horretan Amerikako Estatu Batuetan izandako aldaketa sozial eta kulturalaren nolabaiteko lekukotza da liburu hau. Baina, kanpoko gertaerei bezainbeste edo gehiago begiratuz barneko gertaerei, sentimenduei, gertaera haietako bakoitzean Auster izan zen ume, gazte eta helduarengana samurtasun berezi batekin hurbildu da.Gertaerek utzitako arrastoetan barneratu eta haien pisua, esanahia, maia dezifratuz, halabeharraren bihotzean eta zentzuan azterka aurkitzen dugu idazlea neguko eguneroko honetan.

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 life it

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

The celebrated author of The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions and Invisible presents here a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces and occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers. Ranging in subject from Walter Raleigh to Kafka; Hawthorne to the high-wire artist Philippe Petit; conceptual artist Sophie Calle to Austers own Olympia typewriter; the 9/11 attack on the Twin Towers to his beloved New York City itself, Auster displays all his customary flair, wit and insight.Including several of his major works - important books in their own right, such as Hand to Mouth and The Invention of Solitude - this collection demonstrates and reaffirms the pre-eminent position Paul Auster holds in contemporary literature and criticism.

In The Music of Chance, the story of Jim Nashe and Jack Pozzi, Auster evokes the strong European influences of Samuel Beckett and Franz Kafka in a brilliant and unsettling parable of loss and gambling. In Leviathan, he makes perhaps his most direct attempt at exploring the political reality of contemporary American life, through the figure of Peter Aaron and his challenge to the complacency of modern life. Finally, in Mr Vertigo Auster crafts a cautionary tale of greed and exploitation in the story of Walt, the irrepressible orphan from the Mid-West, who learns the art of levitation under the tutelage of Master Yehudi. Highly varied, yet instantly recognisable as the work of the same storyteller, these three novels form the next chapter in the ongoing career of one of Americas most enduring and fascinating writers. Paul Auster is one of those sages with confounding talent - confounding for one because hes simply that good . . . He belongs among Vonnegut, Roth, and DeLillo . . . Claire HoworthAuster truly is a master of his art.Harpers Bazaar

In Timbuktu, troubled Brooklyn poet-saint Willy G. Christmas embarks on one last great adventure in the company of his canine sidekick Mr Bones. In The Book of Illusions a grieving professor finds his obsession with the true-life story of a great silent comedian leading him into a mysterious shadow-world. In Oracle Night a novelist lately recovered from near-fatal illness falls under the spell of a blank notebook that is seemingly the source of eeire premonitions and bewildering events. And in The Brooklyn Follies an uncle and his nephew, both wounded by past misfortunes, wind up in the same Brooklyn neighbourhood and find their lives profoundly affected by a little girl who refuses to speak. Highly varied yet instantly recognisable, these four novels comprise the most recent chapter in the ongoing career of an author now responsible for ten great American novels.Auster has an enormous talent for creating worlds that are both fantastic and believable . . . His novels are uniformly difficult to put down, a testament to his storytelling gifts.San Francisco Chronicle

After years spent as a struggling translator and poet, Paul Auster published his first works of fiction in the mid 1980s - City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room, three brilliant variations on the classic detective story which, published together as The New York Trilogy, became the international hit that established his reputation.Introducing themes that have run throughout his work ever since, Auster managed to combine formal experimentation with classic storytelling, and to inform his exploration of America and the self with a distinctly European sensibility. Included here in the first volume of his collected novels, alongside his seminal debut are In the Country of Last Things, a dark, dystopian vision of the future, and Moon Palace, a sweeping multi-generation novel that begins in the summer that man first walked on the moon.All told in his characteristic clean prose style, these three novels form the first chapter in an ongoing career that has marked Auster out as one of the most original, relevant and enduring novelists at work today.

Erretiroa hartutako liburu-kritikari bat, hirurogaita hamabi urtekoa; berrogeita zazpi urteko bere alabarekin eta hogeita hiru urteko bilobarekin bizi da. Emaztea iaz hil zitzaion. Alabaren gizonak duela bost urte utzi zuen. Bilobaren mutil-laguna hil egin zuten. Samina dago etxe horretan, arima zaurituak, eta gizona gauero-gauero etzaten da ilunpean bere iraganari buruz ez pentsatzeko ahaleginak eginez, beste mundu batzuei asmatzen. Ezin du eragotzi, hala ere berak asmatzen dituen kontakizuenetan ere, bizitzan bezala, gerra eta tragedia nagusitzea. Samurtasunak eta belaunaldien arteko elkartasunak iraunaratzen ditu bizirik hirurak. Aitona Augusten eta biloba Katyaren artean, bereziki, harreman estua sortu da, zinema-zaletasunaren eta biloba Katyak aitonaren bizitzari buruz agertuko duen jakin-minaren bitartez. Zinema nahiz istorio asmatuak, ordea, ihesbidea dira Katyarentzat ere, mutil-lagun zuenaren heriotza izugarruaren oinazea atzean uzteko saioa...

Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident. Plagued by insomnia, he tries to push back thoughts of things he would prefer to forget - his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus - by telling himself stories. He imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself.

Un hombre mayor está encerrado en una habitación. No recuerda quién es ni qué está haciendo allí. Lo que leemos es el informe de los movimientos de este amnésico personaje al que llaman Mr. Blank y de las sucesivas visitas que ira recibiendo a lo largo del dia. Una serie de enigmaticos personajes relacionados con su pasado que pretenden ajustar cuentas con el. ¿Quien es realmente Mr. Blank? Viajes por el Scriptorium es una enigmatica y fascinante reflexion puramente austeriana sobre las inextricables relaciones entre lenguaje, memoria e identidad. La ultima novela del escritor norteamericano, que hara las delicias de sus muchos seguidores (Mercedes Monmany, ABC); Brooklyn Follies y Viajes por el Scriptorium tienen en comun la excelencia de estilo de Auster. Una escritura que anuncia la ficcion con una precision, novedad y riqueza verbal, realmente infrecuente (German Gullon, El Mundo).NOTAS PARA ISBN:El autore es ingles.

Un homme se réveille, désorienté, dans une chambre inconnue. Sur un bureau sont soigneusement disposés une série de photographies en noir et blanc, deux manuscrits et un stylo. Qui est-il ? Pourquoi se retrouve-t-il assigne a residence entre les quatre murs de cette piece ? Que lui veut cette denommee Anna qui lui parle de comprimes, d''un traitement en cours, mais aussi d''amour et de promesses ? Qui sont ces visiteurs qui, sous l''?il infatigable d''une camera, lui reprochent de les avoir jadis envoyes accomplir de mysterieuses et dangereuses missions ? Revisitant les territoires de l''inquietante etrangete ou son ?uvre s''enracine, Paul Auster livre une etonnante variation sur la relation du romancier a ses personnages, qui entre en resonance avec une interrogation profonde sur les responsabilites de l''Amerique contemporaine face a l''Histoire.

Paul AusterAn elderly man -- widower, father, grandfather -- undergoing a prolonged and proleptic "dark night of the soul" in a house inhabited by his daughter and granddaughter, themselves similarly bereaved and beset with demons of mourning, dissatisfaction and self-recrimination. A counterfactual world where the United States of America is writhing under a new civil war, and only one seemingly insignificant man has the power to stop the carnage. Now: consider the inexplicable and unlikely intersection of these two spheres, and the richness of meaning that might result.

A nova novela de Paul Auster. Unha viaxe polas escuras estremeiras que separan verdade e memoria. Escrita seguindo o fío dunha narración en espiral, Invisible conta a historia de Adam Walker, un estudante da novaiorquina Universidade de Columbia que, nunha festa, coñece unha parella de franceses, o enigmatico Rudolf Born e a sedutora e silandeira Margot. As relacions deste triangulo perverso van involucrar a Walker nun inesperado acto de violencia que alterara o curso da sua vida. Nesta novela, Paul Auster apreixa o lector nunha trama que se espalla desde os anos de oposicion a guerra do Vietnam, na decada de 1960, ata os inicios do seculo XXI.

Willy i el seu gos emprenen la seva última sortida en direcció a Baltimore amb l'esperança de trobar Bea Swanson, exprofessora i gran mentora de Willy, i poder-li confiar tots els seus escrits. Paul Auster se serveix lucidament de l'atenta mirada de Mr. Bones per despullar la nostra humanitat i bastir una de les faules mes originals de la literarua amerciana recent.