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inuously 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."

Una mañana de enero de 1979, el escritor se enteró de que su padre había muerto. Y comenzó a escribir La invención de la soledad, que, como el 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 el misterio de un asesinato ocurrido en la familia sesenta años antes, un episodio que permite sospechar las claves del frio 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. "Una emocionante reflexion sobre la paternidad y sobre la muerte, sobre el ejercicio de la memoria y de la escritura", Miguel Sanchez-Ostiz.

Paul Auster, en paralelo a sus novelas, ha ido publicando algunos textos en los que indaga desde ángulos diversos en su propia vida y en los procesos íntimos de su escritura. Esta nueva entrega de textos autobiograficos es el complemento perfecto del reciente Diario de invierno. Si en dicho volumen el arte y el envejecimiento tenian un papel central, ahora el foco se centra en la infancia y la primera juventud, en la construccion de la personalidad y en el origen primigenio del impetu de escribir, de profundizar en el mundo a traves de las palabras.

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

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

Señalado por THE COMICS JOURNAL como uno de los «100 mejores cómics del siglo xx», El Patito Editorial se complace en publicar en lengua gallega- y en versión del escritor Xavier Queipo- la novela

Dopo aver superato per miracolo una malattia che lo ha quasi ucciso, SidneyOrr, scrittore trentenne, ricomincia faticosamente a vivere. Un giorno,passeggiando per le vie di Brooklyn, entra per caso in una cartoleria e trovatra gli scaffali un taccuino blu. Ma nel momento stesso in cui Sidney loprende in mano sa che lo comprera. Con il taccuino blu Sidney si sente capacedi ritornare a scrivere. E per i successivi nove giorni vive sottol'incantesimo dell'ispirazione: scrive l'inizio di un romanzo, lavora a untrattamento cinematografico, butta giu alcune riflessioni su un tragico fattodi cronaca, e trova una possibile spiegazione ad alcuni fatti misteriosi cherischiano di distruggere la sua vita e quella di sua moglie, Grace.

"Dopo la riunione nel ""Super ET"" Romanzi dei primi tre lavori di Paul Auster ""La trilogia di New York"", ""Nel paese delle ultime cose"" e ""Moon Palace"" -, in ""Romanzi 2"" sono raccolti in ordine cronologico i successivi ""La musica del caso"", Mr Vertigo e Leviatano, pubblicati per la prima volta tra il 1990 e il 1994. Il filo conduttore delle tre storie sono i protagonisti, alter ego dello scrittore che combattono la loro battaglia con il destino. Auster e il romanziere del ""finche c''e vita c''e speranza"" e, a uno a uno, i protagonisti delle sue storie s''incamminano fiduciosi verso il domani incerto. Walt (""Mr Vertigo"") e un povero orfano senza futuro nella St. Louis degli anni Venti, ma possiede un dono naturale, e trova qualcuno deciso a sfruttarlo. Jim Nashe (""La musica del caso"") beneficia di una eredita imprevista, molla il lavoro, lascia sua figlia e, alla guida di una fiammante Saab 900, vagabonda avanti e indietro attraverso l''America. Ma le cose non vanno nel modo sperato. Benjamin Sachs (""Leviatano"") e uno scrittore di talento, invidiato per un matrimonio quasi perfetto e una vita di soddisfazioni. Ma a un certo punto gli succede qualcosa di imprevedibile, da cui emerge che il cammino di ciascuno e in totale balia del caso. "

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

Trente ans après L'Invention de la solitude, Paul Auster pose sur son parcours le regard du sexagénaire qu'il est devenu en convoquant la mémoire de son corps et des multiples sensations qui n'ont ce

Dies ist ein emotional mitreiendes, mit den ersten Zeilen packendes Buch: eine Lebensbeichte ganz aus der Warte des Korpers. 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 seine Hand, seine Fue, seine Glieder im Verlauf eines langen Lebens getan haben. Er lasst seine Liebesbeziehungen Revue passieren: viele zunachst und dann dreiig Jahre lang nur noch die eine, groe Liebe! Die Kinder, die Abtreibungen, die Krankheiten. Er spricht uber die Begegnungen mit dem Tod: ein Sturz als Junge, eine Herzattacke, ein Autounfall. Uber die Korperlichkeit auch, die unendliche Empfindlichkeit jenes physischen Systems, das uns am Leben erhalt und uber das wir so wenig nachdenken, solange es funktioniert. Alkohol, Zigarillos, Suchte all die Versuchungen, dieses System auszutricksen, sich dem Verfall, dem Alltag zu entziehen.Winterjournal ist eine Art Autobiographie, aber keine konventionelle, sondern hochste literarische Kunst: voll philosophischer Betrachtungen, poetischer Impressionen, intimer Einsichten.

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)

Austers tragicomic tale of one unforgettable dog from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: a literary voice for the ages (Guardian) Meet Mr Bones, the canine hero of Paul Austers remarkable novel. Bones is the sidekick of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant but troubled poet-saint from Brooklyn. Together they sally forth across America to Baltimore, Maryland, on one last great adventure, searching for Willys old teacher, Bea Swanson. Years have passed since Willy last saw his beloved mentor, who used to know him as William Gurevitch, son of Polish war refugees. But is Mrs Swanson still alive? And if not, what will prevent Willy from vanishing into that other world known as Timbuktu?In this brilliant novel, Auster writes with economy, precision and the quirky pathos of noir, addressing the pernicious ubiquity of American consumerism, the nature of love and the core riddles of ontology. Above all, though, this is the affecting tale of a special dogs place in the universe of humans and in the fleeting life of a special man.Publishers Weekly

Paul Auster’s greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel—a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson’s life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. Meanwhile, readers will take in each Ferguson’s pleasures and ache from each Ferguson’s pains, as the mortal plot of each Ferguson’s life rushes on. As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written, yet with a passion for realism and a great tenderness and fierce attachment to history and to life itself that readers have never seen from Auster before. 4 3 2 1 is a marvelous and unforgettably affecting tour de force

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 familia ses

Paul Auster, der bekannte amerikanische Bestsellerautor, legt in Gestalt eines Ratselspiels sein bisher umfangreichstes Werk und Opus magnum vor: die vierfach unterschiedlich erzahlte Geschichte eines jungen Amerikaners in den funfziger 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, wachst im Newark der funfziger Jahre auf. "Was fur ein interessanter Gedanke", sagt er sich als kleiner Junge, "sich vorzustellen, wie fur ihn alles anders sein konnte, auch wenn er selbst immer derselbe bliebe. Ja, alles war moglich, und nur weil etwas auf eine bestimmte Weise geschah, hie das noch lange nicht, dass es nicht auch auf eine andere Weise geschehen konnte."Im Verein mit der hoheren Macht einer von Paul Auster raffiniert dirigierten literarischen Vorsehung entspinnen sich nun vier unterschiedliche Versionen von Archies Leben: provinziell und bescheiden; kampferisch, aber vom Ungluck verfolgt; betroffen und besessen von den Ereignissen der Zeit; kunstlerisch genial begabt und nach den Sternen greifend. Und alle vier sind vollgepackt mit Abenteuern, Liebe, Lebenskampfen und den Schlagen eines unberechenbaren Schicksals ''4 3 2 1'' ist ein faszinierendes Gedankenspiel und ein Hohepunkt in Austers Schaffen. Seine groen Themen, das Streben nach Gluck, 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 Gluck in der Welt zu finden sucht.