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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.

In this novel Paul Auster offers a haunting picture of a devastated world - a futuristic world - but one which may be seen to shadow our own. Auster has also written "The New York Trilogy".

This volume of Paul Austers collected novels includes Travels in the Scriptorium, Man in the Dark, Invisible and Sunset Park.

Paul Auster takes the reader on a vivid journey through the brief 29 years of Stephen Cranes life. Auster analyses the major works with such enthusiasm that the reader immediately wants to read Cranes work.Auster also brings to life the world of fin de siecle America as the 19th century ends and the 20th is beginning.This pulsating world is the background to a life lived at a fever pitch - in war zones, near-drowning on his way to the Spanish American War, as well involvement in a scandalous love affair that caused him to leave the country.Crane died in 1900, but he is not the last of the Victorians, he is the first of the Moderns.

Austers haunting exploration of war in a post 9/11 world from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: a literary voice for the ages (Guardian) I am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness.Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughters 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 rather forget - his wifes recent death and the horrific murder, in Iraq, of his granddaughters boyfriend, Titus. Brill, a 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 on 9/11, 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, Brills 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 another hidden story, this time of his own marriage. After she falls asleep, he at last finds the courage to revisit the trauma of Tituss death.Passionate and shocking, political and personal: Man in the Dark is a novel that reflects the consequences of 9/11, 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.

The figure of the young American poet living in Paris is familiar from Paul Austers celebrated novels; here that character is realised in Austers own stunningly accomplished verse. His penetrating and charged poetry resembles little else in recent American literature. This collection of his poems, translations, and composition notes from early in his career furnish yet further evidence of his literary mastery.Taut, densely lyrical and everywhere informed by a powerful and subtle music, this selection begins with the compact verse fragments of Spokes (written when Auster was in his early twenties) and Unearth, continues on through the more ample meditations of Wall Writing, Disappearances, Effigies, Fragments From the Cold, Facing the Music, and White Spaces, then moves further back in time to include Austers revealing translations of many of the French poets who influenced his own writing - including Paul Eluard, Andre Breton, Tristan Tzara, Philippe Soupault, Robert Desnos and Rene Char - as well as the provocative and previously unpublished Notes From A Composition Book (1967). An introduction by Norman Finkelstein connects biographical elements to a consideration of the work, and takes in Austers early literary and philosophical influences. For those interested in Paul Austers novels - the now-classic New York Trilogy or The Brooklyn Follies - this book is an invaluable opportunity to witness his early development.Powerful, sometimes haunting, cool, precise and limpid, this view from the past to the present will appeal to those unfamiliar with this aspect of Austers work, as well as those already acquainted with his poetry. Readers will agree that Austers grasp on language and the world around him is not only questioning, but mysterious and very human, perceptive, and deeply compelling

Austers tale of obsession from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: a literary voice for the ages (Guardian)The Book of Illusions, written with breath-taking urgency and precision, plunges the reader into a universe in which the comic and the tragic, the real and the imagined, and the violent and the tender dissolve into one another.One mans obsession with the mysterious life of a silent film star takes him on a journey into a shadow-world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love. After losing his wife and young sons in a plane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in grief. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann, and remembers how to laugh . . .Mann was a comic genius, in trademark white suit and fluttering black moustache. But one morning in 1929 he walked out of his house and was never heard from again. Zimmers obsession with Mann drives him to publish a study of his work; whereupon he receives a letter postmarked New Mexico, supposedly written by Manns wife, and inviting him to visit the great Mann himself. Can Hector Mann be alive? Zimmer cannot decide - until a strange woman appears on his doorstep and makes the decision for him, changing his life forever.A nearly flawless work . . . Auster will be remembered as one of the great writers of our time.San Francisco ChronicleAusters elegant, finely calibrated The Book of Illusions is a haunting feat of intellectual gamesmanship.TheNew York Times

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.

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 dis

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. Paul Auster was born in New Jersey (USA) in 1947.Returning to New York from Paris in 1974, he began his writing career. Throughout the 1970s he wrote poetry and essays which appeared in various magazines including the New York Review of Books. In the 1980s he concentrated on prose writing: a memoir and four novels were published. His screenplay Smoke and Blue in the Face was published in April 1996, with the release of the film, and in 1999 Faber published the screenplay Lulu on the Bridge. The Art of Hunger and his Selected Poems were published in 1998. He is the author of twelve novels: The New York Trilogy, In the Country of Last Things, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, Leviathan, Mr Vertigo, Timbuktu, The Book of Illusions, Oracle Night, The Brooklyn Follies, Travels in the Scriptorium and Man in the Dark.

Nel 1967, Adam Walker ha vent''anni e studia a New York; la sua unica aspirazione e 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 ambiguita, continua a frequentarlo: sino a quando, una sera, non assiste alla criminale esplosione della sua aggressivita. Tormentato dai sensi di colpa per non avere tempestivamente avvisato la polizia e consapevole di aver vissuto un''esperienza che lo segnera per sempre, trascorre l''estate in citta 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 perche ha vinto una borsa di studio. Ma Parigi e anche la citta in cui, sfuggendo alle autorita americane, e tornato a vivere Born. Adam sa bene che si dovra cosi confrontare con la parte piu nera e imperscrutabile della propria anima