The Red Notebook stories, pulled from Auster's own life or from the lives of those close to him, are explorations of unexpected coincidences. A wrong number becomes the genesis for a famous novel; a hero appears at an inopportune moment; a lightning storm harries a group of campers; a daughter plung[...]
"That is where the story begins, in your body and everything will end in the body as well." On January 3, 2011, exactly one month before his sixty-fourth birthday, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster sat down and wrote the first entry of "Winter Journal," his unorthodox, beautifully wroug[...]
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[...]
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 rememb[...]
Paul Auster's brilliant debut novels, City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room brought him international acclaim for his creation of a new genre, mixing elements of the standard detective fiction and postmodern fiction. City of Glass combines dark, Kafka-like humor with all the suspense of a Hitch[...]
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[...]
Paul Auster's brilliant debut novels, City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room brought him international acclaim for his creation of a new genre, mixing elements of the standard detective fiction and postmodern fiction. City of Glass combines dark, Kafka-like humor with all the suspense of a Hitch[...]
The following book explores the intertextual relationship between Paul Auster's first and most remarkable work, The New York Trilogy (1987), and the works of certain American and European writers who shaped this novel and Auster's future works. Auster's The New York Trilogy is a novel formed by an i[...]
An artist associated with the New York School of poets, Joe Brainard (1942-1994) was a wonderful writer whose one-of-a-kind autobiographical work "I Remember" ("a completely original book" -Edmund White) has had a wide and growing influence. It is joined in this major new retrospective with many oth[...]
Understanding Paul Auster is a comprehensive companion to the work of a writer who effectively balances a particular combination of Jewish American identity and European sensibility across an impressive breadth of novels, screenplays, essays, and poetry. James Peacock views Auster as chiefly concern[...]
Paul Auster is one of the most acclaimed figures in American literature. Known primarily as a novelist, Auster's films and various collaborations are now gaining more recognition. Evija Trofimova offers a radically different approach to the author's wider body of work, unpacking the fascinating web [...]
It haunts us; it stalks us; it shapes us. It creeps into our dreams and, if we allow it, can plague our ponderings of the future. The same 'monsters' that lived under our childhood beds can reappear, alive and toothsome, in our adult lives. And perhaps most frightening of all: without reason or apol[...]
As autobiography, Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories ('everything is interesting, sooner or later') as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each prefaced by the refrain 'I remember.'[...]
Paul Auster's great trilogy of 1985-1986 broke ground in its mix of serious fictional techniques and detective and mystery genres. Since that time it has become one of the most successful series of novels of the last decades, now republished in a beautiful cloth edition.[...]
In this clear and detailed reading guide, we've done all the hard work for you!The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster tells the story of a man named Nathan and the journey he and his family undertake through divorce, death and love. Both heartwarming and heartbreaking, The Brooklyn Follies gives a true[...]
Auf der Suche nach ihrem verschwundenen Bruder ver?l?sst Anna Blume die geord?nete Welt ihrer Heimat und findet sich wieder in einer namenlosen und zerfallenden Stadt, wo sie als M?llsammler?in ihren Lebensunterhalt ver?dienen muss.[...]
Authors do not only create artworks. In the process of creating, they simultaneously bring to life their authorial persona. Approaching this phenomenon from an interdisciplinary point of view, Sonja Longolius develops a concept of "performative authorship" by examining different strategies of becomi[...]