Paul Auster Books

This updated nonfiction collection features significant works by Paul Auster, including his influential piece, The Invention of Solitude. Auster, a Man Booker Prize finalist, delves into themes of solitude, identity, and the human experience, offering profound insights and reflections. The collection showcases his unique narrative style and philosophical depth, making it a compelling read for those interested in contemporary thought and personal exploration.

Paul Auster's novels have earned him the reputation as 'one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers.' He has also brought this sense of invention to the art of screenwriting, producing Smoke, Blue in the Face, Lulu on the Bridge and The Inner Life of Martin Frost. Smoke tells the story of a novelist, a cigar store manager and a black teenager who unexpectedly cross paths. Blue in the Face is a largely improvised comedy directly inspired by Smoke. In Lulu on the Bridge, jazz musician Izzy Maurer is accidently hit with a bullet during a performance in a New York club, propelling him on a strange and frightening journey. The Inner Life of Martin Frost follows the unsettling experiences that befall a writer who borrows a friend's country house. The volume also contains production notes, as well as interviews with Paul Auster about his work in film.

Joe Brainard's I Remember is a literary and artistic cult classic, praised and admired by writers from Paul Auster to John Ashery and Edmund White. As autobiography, Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each prefaced by the refrain "I remember": "I remember when I thought that if you did anything bad, policemen would put you in jail." Brainard's enduring gem of a book has been issued in various forms over the past thirty years. In 1970, Angel Hair books published the first edition of I Remember, which quickly sold out; he wrote two subsequent volumes for Angel Hair, More I Remember (1972) and More I Remember More (1973), both of which proved as popular as the original. In 1973, the Museum of Modern Art in New York published Brainard's I Remember Christmas, a new text for which he also contributed a cover design and four drawings. Excerpts from the Angel Hair editions appeared in Interview, Gay Sunshine, The World and the New York Herald. Then in 1975, Full Court Press issued a revised version collecting all three of the Angel Hair volumes and added new material, using the original title I Remember. This complete edition is prefaced by poet and translator Ron Padgett.

On the eve of Christmas Eve, Tyler Kobe Nichols collapsed on the sidewalk, fatally wounded. His death at twenty-one marked another instance of senseless violence in America, receiving minimal coverage in the media. Yet, each tragedy unfolds a deeper narrative about the aftermath of loss, as Tyler's mother, Sherma Chambers, poignantly notes, a generational issue with no clear resolution. The project began with a misunderstanding when photographer Spencer Ostrander attended Tyler's funeral, mistakenly believing he was a gun violence victim. Instead, he met Sherma, leading to a collaboration that included Paul Auster, uniting strangers in shared sorrow. The Nichols/Chambers family's openness allows readers to witness their intimate grief following Tyler's murder. Their response includes establishing a foundation aimed at combating street violence through love, transforming their tragedy into a catalyst for societal change. This work invites readers to engage with the community's resilience amidst outrage and despair over the violence epidemic. It also offers a glimmer of hope, as the Long Live King Kobe Foundation, initiated by Sherma Chambers, will fund nonviolence initiatives to protect youth. Proceeds from this book will support the foundation's mission.

"A landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane"--

'Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin . . .'The explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster's remarkable novel also ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the home of one of Sachs's oldest friends, the writer Peter Aaron. What follows is Aaron's story, an intricate, subtle and gripping investigation of another man's life in all its richness and complexity. Combining an investigation of freedom and terrorism with all the tension, mystery and allusive richness familiar from Auster's The New York Trilogy or Sunset Park, Leviathan is an unmissable addition to the canon of 'one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers.' (Times Literary Supplement) '[A] Brownian motion experiment of a plot - chock-a-block with identity-swaps, sideways sweeps and lateral leaps.' Observer

The celebrated author of "The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions" and "Oracle Night" now offers an essential collection of essays, prefaces, true stories, autobiographical writings, and collaborations with artists.

Talking to Strangers is a freshly-curated collection of prose, spanning fifty years of work and including famous as well as never-before-published early writings, from 2018 Man Booker-finalist Paul Auster.

Amerika zwischen 1886 und 1972: Paul Austers Roman vom Leben dreier Generationen verbindet Familiengeschichte und Zeitgeschichte. Dabei durchdringen sich Fiktion und Realität auf vielschichtige, rätselhafte Weise, ständig verwischen sich die Identitäten der beteiligten Personen. Ein postmodernes Spiel mit literarischen Traditionen und herkömmlichen Lesererwartungen! Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.

New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy) opens Leviathan with the tearing of a bomb explosion and the death of one Benjamin Sachs. Ben’s one-time best friend, Peter Aaron, begins to retrospectively investigate the transformation that led Ben from his enviable stable life, to one of a recluse. Both were once intelligent, yet struggling novelists until Ben’s near-death experience falling from a fire escape triggers a tumble in which he becomes withdrawn and disturbed, living alone and building bombs in a far-off cabin. That is, until he mysteriously disappears, leaving behind only a manuscript titled Leviathan, pages rustling in the wind.

The true-life stories in this unique collection provide "a window into the American mind and heart" (The Daily News). One hundred and eighty voices - male and female, young and old, from all walks of life and all over the country - talk intimately to the reader. Combining great humor and pathos this remarkable selection of stories from the thousands submitted to NPR's Weekend All Things Considered National Story Project gives the reader a glimpse of America's soul in all its diversity.

An array of New Yorkers become involved with a mom-and-pop cigar shop in Brooklyn in an acclaimed short story, presented here along with interviews with the author and the film's actors and a description of the process of creating a film. Original. Movie tie-in.

BLOODBATH NATION is about the Epidemic that is tearing apart the fabric of American society.An Epidemic caused - not by Covid - but by Guns.Among its victims are men, women, teenagers, children, and even babies. The massacres have taken place in churches, schools, movie theatres, and at rock concerts. Auster establishes how America's love affair with guns goes all the way back to the arrival of the first British settlers - guns in hand - who used these guns to eradicate the Native Americans who occupied the country. This history of carnage continues to this day.Interwoven into the text are photographs taken by Spencer Ostrander of the locations of the mass killlngs - which serve as mute testaments to the lives that have been lost.Guns have become one of the issues dividing America today, but Auster doesn't take sides. The book is a plea for both sides to find a way of avoiding more death and grief. Accompanying Auster's text is a series of photographs of the locations of these mass killings. There are no bodies - only the empty spaces which stand as mute memorials to the lives that have been lost.

Paul Auster's three stories explore the nature of identity. He uses the detective, spy and friendship genres as vehicles to delve into the relationships between different groups of people.

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.

'By the time Nashe understood what was happening to him, he was past the point of wanting it to end . . .' Following the death of his father and the inheritance of a large sum of money, Jim Nashe takes to the open road in pursuit of a 'life of freedom'. But as the money runs out he finds that his sense of disillusionment has only been compounded by his year on the road. However, having picked up Pozzi, a hitchhiking young gambler, he is drawn into a dangerous game of poker with Flower and Stone, two eccentric and reclusive millionaires. Unwittingly, Nashe finds himself in a situation in which, although the stakes have been raised, he will finally meet a challenge equal to his questions.

'I was twelve years old the first time I walked on water.' Meet Walt, the irrepressible hero of Paul Auster's astonishing new novel, the orphan from the mid-West who is set on the road to stardom by the dark and mesmerising figure of Master Yehudi. When the master takes little Walt back to the mysterious house on the great plains, he initiates the tutorial process that will culminate in Walt learning to fly.

In "Winter Journal", Auster presents the abandonment of the family by his father from his mother's point of view: her struggle as a single mother; love found again late in life, a love that was short-lived; her troubled later years and, finally, her death - and the subsequent anxiety attacks Auster suffered in the face of her death. In "Winter Journal" Auster moves through the events of his life in a random series of memories grasped from the point of view of his life now: playing baseball as a teenager; participating in the anti-Vietnam demonstrations at Columbia University; seeking out prostitutes in Paris, almost killing his second wife and child in a car accident; falling in and out of live with his first wife.

"In a section of interviews as well as in The Red Notebook, Auster reflects on his own work - on the need to break down the boundary between living and writing, and on the use of certain genre conventions to penetrate matters of memory and identity. The Art of Hunger undermines and illuminates our accepted notions about literature and throws an unprecedented light on Auster's own richly allusive writings."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Offers the author's personal meditation on fatherhood. This title reveals his memories and feelings after the death of his father.

On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous paths. Four Fergusons will go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and passions contrast. Each version of…

Six months after losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a clip from a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann. Zimmer’s interest is piqued, and he soon finds himself embarking on a journey around the world to research a book on this mysterious figure, who vanished from sight in 1929 and has been presumed dead for sixty years. When the book is published the following year, a letter turns up in Zimmer’s mailbox bearing a return address from a small town in New Mexico inviting him to meet Hector. Torn between doubt and belief, Zimmer hesitates, until one night a strange woman appears on his doorstep and makes the decision for him, changing his life forever. The Book of Illusions is, in the words of Peter Carey, “suffused with warmth and illuminated by its narrator’s hard won wisdom. This artful and elegant novel may be Auster’s best ever.”

The remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room, from New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster “Exhilarating . . . a brilliant investigation of the storyteller’s art guided by a writer-detective who’s never satisfied with just the facts.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer City of Glass: As a result of a strange phone call in the middle of the night, Quinn, a writer of detective stories, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than any he might have written. Ghosts: Blue, a student of Brown, has been hired by White to spy on Black. From a window of a rented room on Orange Street, Blue keeps watch on his subject, who is across the street, staring out of his own window. The Locked Room: Fanshawe has disappeared, leaving behind his wife and baby and a cache of extraordinary novels, plays, and poems. What happened to him and why is the narrator, Fanshawe’s boyhood friend, lured obsessively into his life? Moving at the breathless pace of a thriller, this is a uniquely stylized trilogy of detective novels that The Washington Post Book World has classified as “post-existential private eye. . . . It’s as if Kafka has gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned his own ever-spiraling version.”

"White Spaces gathers the poetry and prose of Paul Auster from various small-press books issued throughout the seventies. These early poetic works are crucial for understanding the evolution of Auster's writing. Taut, lyrical, and always informed by a powerful and subtle music, his poems begin with basics-a swallow's egg, stones, roots, thistle, "the glacial rose"--And push language to the breaking point. As Robert Creeley wrote, "The enduring power of these early poems is their moving address to a world all too elusive, too fragmented, and too bitterly transient." Auster's poems are grounded in a physical utterance that is at once an exploration of the mind and of the world. This collection begins with compact verse fragments from Spokes (originally published in Poetry, 1971) and goes through Auster's marvelous later collections including Wall Writing (The Figures, 1976), Facing the Music (Parenthèse, 1979), and White Spaces (Station Hill, 1980)"-- Provided by publisher

A collection of essays and interviews which reflect on literature, on the need to break down the boundary between living and writing, and on the use of certain genre conventions to penetrate matters of memory and identity.

Although Paul Auster and J.M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, 'God willing, strike sparks off each other.' Here and Now is the result of that proposal: an epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friends. Over three years their letters touched on nearly every subject, from sports to fatherhood, film festivals to incest, philosophy to politics, from the financial crisis to art, family, marriage, friendship, and love. Their correspondence offers an intimate and often amusing portrait of these two men as they explore the complexities of the here and now and is a reflection of two sharp intellects whose pleasure in each other's friendship is apparent on every page.

Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Glass encounters his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, who is working in a local bookstore -- a far cry from the brilliant academic career Tom had begun when Nathan saw him last. Tom's boss is the colorful and charismatic Harry Brightman -- aka Harry Dunkel -- once the owner of a Chicago art gallery, whom fate has also brought to the "ancient kingdom of Brooklyn, New York." Through Tom and Harry, Nathan's world gradually broadens to include a new circle of acquaintances -- not to mention a stray relative or two -- and leads him to a reckoning with his past. With The Brooklyn Follies, the always astonishing Paul Auster has written what is undoubtedly his warmest, most exuberant novel, a moving, unforgettable hymn to the glories and mysteries of ordinary human life.

Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext – ungekürzt und unbearbeitet mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen. Paul Auster, Jahrgang 1947, einer der prominentesten Gegenwartsautoren Amerikas, schaffte seinen literarischen Durchbruch 1985 mit »City of Glass«, dem ersten Roman der »New York Trilogy«, einer brillant erzählten (Kriminal-)Geschichte, in der sich Realität und Fiktion ständig vermischen und in der es nur eine Konstante gibt – den Zufall. »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 Englische Lektüre: Niveau C1 (GER) Sprachen: Deutsch, Englisch

Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a Brooklyn stationery shop and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18th, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, within a world of eerie premonitions.

In 1999, Paul Auster and National Public Radio's Weekend All Things Considered programme asked listeners to send in true stories, to be read on-air as part of the National Story Project. The response was overwhelming: everyone, it seemed, had a story to tell. True Tales of American Life gathers 180 of these stories in one extraordinary volume.

It begins with a writer's dilemmaQhe's been asked by "The New York Times" to write a story that will appear in the paper on Christmas morning. The writer agrees, but he has a problemQhow does one write an unsentimental Christmas story? The result is Auster's timeless, utterly charming Christmas fable, beautifully illustrated and destined to become a classic. 0-8050-7723-5$17.50 / Henry Holt & Company

'One day there is life . . . And then, suddenly, it happens there is death.' So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood, The Invention of Solitude. The first section, 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', reveals Auster's memories and feelings after the death of his father. In 'The Book of Memory' the perspective shifts to Auster's role as a father. The narrator, 'A.', contemplates his separation from his son, his dying grandfather and the solitary nature of writing and story-telling. With all the keen literary intelligence familiar from The New York Trilogy or Sunset Park, Paul Auster crafts an intensely intimate work from a ground-breaking combination of introspection, meditation and biography.

Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, 'God willing, strike sparks off each other'. Here and Now is the result of that proposal: an epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friends.

Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible 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 girlfriend 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, as it travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from New York to Paris and to a remote Caribbean island in a story of unbridled sexual hunger and a relentless quest for justice.With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us to the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, authorship and identity to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers.

Baumgartner's life has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna. But now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is embarking on his seventies whilst trying to live with her absence. Rich with compassion, wit and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient episodes of ordinary life, 'Baumgartner' is a tender late masterpiece of the ache of memory. It asks: why do we find such meaning in certain moments, and forget others?

Mr. Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's astonishing new book, is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant and troubled homeless man from Brooklyn. As Willy's body slowly expires, he sets off with Mr. Bones for Baltimore in search of his high school English teacher and a new home for his companion. Mr. Bones is our witness during their journey, and out of his thoughts, Paul Auster has spun one of the richest, most compelling tales in American fiction.

Imagine what a dictionary might look like about thirty years hence, when all of the world's problems are solved and our current dictionaries are a distant memory. Dave Eggers, Jonathan Safran Foer and Nicole Krauss have lined up an incredible array of writers to bring you that futuristic dictionary and a vision of the world as it might be. Think of it as a dictionary of language for describing what the future could look like a dictionary that is both useful and romantic, hopeful and necessary, pragmatic and idealistic, and frequently funny. This is science fiction but with a difference.

A collection of poetry and prose from Paul Auster, the author of "New York Trilogy" and "Moon Palace". The book is divided into two parts. The first part is a selection from the author's volumes of poetry published in America in the 1970s and the second part is a collection of his essays.

Paul Auster's "Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure" is a fascinating and often funny memoir about his early years as a writer struggling to be published, and to make enough money to survive. Leaving high school with "itchy feet" and refusing to play it safe, Auster avoided convention and the double life of steady office employment while writing. From the streets of New York City, Dublin, and Paris to a surreal adventure in a dusty village in Mexico, Auster's account of living on next to nothing introduces an unforgettable cast of characters while examining what it means to be a writer.

August Brill is recovering from a car accident. Plagued by insomnia, he tries to push back thoughts about his wife's death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus. He is joined in the early hours by his granddaughter, and he opens up to her and recounts the story of his marriage and confronts the reality of Titus' death.

Paul Auster's Sunset Park is set in the sprawling flatlands of Florida, where twenty-eight-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure. Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, a situation that caused him to flee his father and step-mother in New York seven years ago.What keeps him in Florida is his relationship with a teenage high-school girl, Pilar, but when her family threatens to expose their relationship, Miles decides to protect Pilar by going back to Brooklyn, where he settles in a squat to prepare himself to face the inevitable confrontation with his father - a confrontation he has been avoiding for years.Set against the backdrop of the devastating global recession, and pulsing with the energy of Auster's previous novel Invisible, Sunset Park is as mythic as it is contemporary, as in love with baseball as it is with literature. It is above all, a story about love and forgiveness - not only among men and women, but also between fathers and sons.

In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts. Paul Auster recalls his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, now reflecting on his inner development and experiences with the outer world, alongside revealing letters to his first wife, Lydia Davis. This impressionistic portrait of a writer coming of age captures Auster's journey from a baby's-eye view of the moon to his childhood admiration for movie cowboy Buster Crabbe, the composition of his first poem at nine, and his growing awareness of American injustices. It charts his moral, political, and intellectual evolution as he navigates the post-war fifties and the turbulent sixties. Auster evokes the sounds, smells, and sensations of his early life, filled with moving images and his love for cartoons and films. The book culminates uniquely, breaking from prose into pure imagery, with the final section recapitulating the earlier parts through an album of pictures. This four-part work not only tells the story of Auster's times but also of the emerging consciousness of a renowned literary artist, addressing the challenge of autobiography in an unprecedented manner.

Searching for solitude, the writer Martin Frost borrows a friend's country house. Waking up one morning, he is shocked to find a nearly naked young woman beside him in bed. She also has a key to the house and claims to be the owner's niece. Martin's initial annoyance at Claire's intrusion is rapidly forgotten as he falls passionately in love with her. Even when it is revealed that Claire is not who she claims to be, their idyllic passion continues--until she suddenly falls ill. The Inner Life of Martin Frost is based on an imaginary film that appears in his novel The Book of Illusions

An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few objects around him are one-word, hand-written, labels and on the desk is a series of vaguely familiar black-and-white photgraphs and four piles of paper. Then a middle-aged woman called Anna enters and talks of pills and treatment, but also of love and promises. Who is he? What is he doing here? When did he arrive and how long will he remain? With any luck, time will tell us all.

Eingeführte Reihe. Interpretationsband in englischer Sprache für Schüler. Das 1989 erschienene Werk ("Mond über Manhattan") wird mit ausführlicher Inhaltsangabe vorgestellt, Charakteristiken, Sprache und Struktur analysiert. Zum Inhalt: Auf geheimnisvolle Weise macht ein junger Aussteiger in New York die späte Bekanntschaft mit den exzentrischen Gestalten seines Vaters und Großvaters.Im Anhang ein Glossar mit literarischen Fachbegriffen und Hinweise zur Abfassung einer literarischen Facharbeit. Mit Zwischenfragen zur Wiederholung. Zuletzt wurde zu "Moon Palace" der Band von MariaFelicitas Herforth (Königs Erläuterungen, BA 4/07) vorgestellt. .

Lange vor seinem internationalen Ruhm als Romanautor veröffentlichte Auster einen Gedichtband, der nun in deutscher Übersetzung erhältlich ist.

Paul Auster wurde 1947 in Newark, New Jersey, geboren. Er studierte Anglistik und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft an der Columbia University und verbrachte nach dem Studium einige Jahre in Frankreich. International bekannt wurde er mit seinen Romanen Im Land der letzten Dinge und der New-York-Trilogie. Sein umfangreiches, vielfach preisgekröntes Werk umfasst neben zahlreichen Romanen auch Essays und Gedichte sowie Übersetzungen zeitgenössischer Lyrik.

Paul Auster nimmt den Leser mit auf eine lebhafte Reise durch die kurzen 29 Jahre von Stephen Cranes Leben. Crane war der strahlende Stern der US-Literatur zur Jahrhundertwende, ein Frühvollendeter in jeder Hinsicht – wichtigster Vertreter des amerikanischen Naturalismus und Autor des legendären Bürgerkriegsromans «The Red Badge of Courage» («Die rote Tapferkeitsmedaille»). In den wenigen Jahren, die ihm vergönnt waren, verfasste er neben diesem ikonischen Roman ein reiches Werk aus Lyrik, Kurzgeschichten und Novellen und führte ein abenteuerliches, ja fiebriges Leben u. a. als Kriegskorrespondent im Spanisch-Amerikanischen und im Griechisch-Türkischen Krieg. Er erlitt Schiffbruch vor der kubanischen Küste, wurde in eine skandalöse Liebesaffäre verwickelt, die ihn zwang, seine Heimat zu verlassen, bereiste mehrere Kontinente, wurde in Kriegseinsätzen beschossen – all dies vor dem Hintergrund des pulsierenden, sich rapide wandelnden Lebens im blühenden Industriezeitalter. Und so ist Austers liebevoll genaues und detailreiches Porträt des Schriftstellers Crane auch eines seiner Zeit und der Welt im Fin de Siècle des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts am Übergang zum zwanzigsten.

Avant de connaître la consécration, Paul Auster a connu des années de " galère ", comme tout écrivain qui se refuse à exercer un autre métier. De ses mésaventures, de ses tentatives, de ses véritables paniques devant les soucis matériels, il fait ici la chronique allègre. Elle commence aux querelles budgétaires qui minent le couple de ses parents, et s'achève à la parution de son premier livre. Les admirateurs de l'écrivain apprendront comment il a traduit en direct un discours de Jean Genet, inventé un jeu de cartes qui aurait assuré sa fortune sans l'arrivée de l'informatique, écrit un polar noir dans l'espérance d'un gros tirage... Mais au-delà de l'anecdote, cette réflexion sincère sur l'argent et la création éclaire d'un jour nouveau, de même que les souvenirs réunis sous le titre Pourquoi écrire ?, bien des pages d'une œuvre romanesque déjà classique.

Dies ist die Geschichte vielfältiger Beziehungen: Zwischen einem Schriftsteller und einem Maler. Zwischen einem Schriftsteller und seiner Schreibmaschine. Zwischen einem Maler und seiner Besessenheit von dieser Schreibmaschine. Dies ist auch das Ergebnis einer Zusammenarbeit: entstanden aus Paul Austers Geschichte seiner 25 Jahre alten mechanischen Olympia und Sam Messers willkommenem, aber ziemlich beunruhigendem Auftritt in dieser Geschichte. Auf Austers Olympia entstanden alle seine Texte seit 1974, ein Gesamtwerk, das zu den kreativsten und anerkanntesten der jüngeren US-Literaturgeschichte gehört. Messers kraftvolle, eindringliche Zeichnungen und Ölbilder sowohl des Autors als auch seiner Schreibmaschine haben, wie Auster schreibt, ein «eigentlich unbelebtes Objekt in ein beseeltes Wesen mit fühlbarer Präsenz verwandelt». Der durchgehend vierfarbige Band mit seinen opulenten Bildern ist ein Fest fürs Auge und ein Muss für alle Auster-Fans.

„Mit Fremden sprechen“ ist eine vom Autor selbst zusammengestellte Auswahl seiner besten Essays und Schriften aus fünfzig Jahren, die sowohl berühmte Texte als auch bislang Unveröffentlichtes enthält. Beginnend mit einer kurzen philosophischen Betrachtung, die er mit zwanzig schrieb, und schließend mit einer Reihe von politischen Texten über Themen wie Obdachlosigkeit, 9/11 oder den Zusammenhang zwischen Fußball und Krieg, bieten die 44 Stücke dieser Auswahl einen großen Überblick über Austers Ansichten zu klassischen und zeitgenössischen Schriftstellern, zur Hochseilartistik von Philippe Petit, zu seinen Kunstaktionen mit Sophie Calle und dem langen Weg, den er mit seiner geliebten mechanischen Schreibmaschine zurückgelegt hat. Ebenfalls enthalten sind jüngere Texte über die Notizbücher von Nathaniel Hawthorne, die Filme von Jim Jarmusch, eine Vorlesung zu Edgar Allen Poe, eine Tirade gegen den ehemaligen New Yorker Bürgermeister und Trump-Gehilfen Rudy Giuliani sowie die lustigste Einführung zu einer Dichterlesung, die in Amerika je gehalten wurde..Hochintelligent und zutiefst menschlich - eine unverzichtbare Kollektion für alle Leser und Fans des „angesehensten amerikanischen Schriftstellers seiner Generation“. (The Spectator)

Daniel Quinn, ein Kriminalautor, wird nachts von einem Fremden angerufen und in eine verworrene Affäre hineingezogen, die komplexer ist als alles, was er je geschrieben hat. Plötzlich wird er als Detektiv unter dem Namen Paul Auster eingesetzt, um Peter Stillman zu beobachten. Doch wer ist dieser Stillman und warum versucht sein Vater, ihn zu töten? Quinn verfolgt alle möglichen Spuren in New York, das sich als labyrinthartiger Raum entpuppt. Naheliegende Schlüsse verlieren ihre Klarheit, und aus der einfachen Aufgabe, einen Mann zu finden, wird eine aufreibende Suche nach seiner eigenen Identität. In einer anderen Geschichte erhält Blue den Auftrag von White, Black zu beobachten. Ohne die Hintergründe zu kennen, wird er zum obsessiven Detektiv, der die Grenzen zwischen Realität und Täuschung nicht mehr unterscheiden kann. Seine Professionalität schwindet, und sein Leben gerät aus den Fugen, während er verzweifelt versucht, Blacks Geheimnis zu lüften. Ein weiterer Handlungsstrang dreht sich um den Schriftsteller Fanshawe, der spurlos verschwindet und seine Frau Sophie und das Kind zurücklässt. Sein Freund, der Erzähler, übernimmt die Rolle des Nachlassverwalters, veröffentlicht Fanshawes Werke und heiratet Sophie. Doch als er erfährt, dass Fanshawe noch lebt, beginnt eine fieberhafte Suche, die ihn in eine tiefe Krise stürzt und seine eigene Existenz infrage stellt.

Eine weihnachtliche Miniatur des grossen amerikanischen Romanciers Auggie Wren arbeitet als Verkäufer in einem Zigarrengeschäft an der Court Street in Brooklyn. Hier kauft Paul immer die kleinen holländischen Zigarren, die er so gerne raucht. Jahrelang hat Paul keinen Gedanken an den seltsamen kleinen Mann im blauen Kapuzenshirt verschwendet. Bis Auggie ihn eines Tages fragt, ob er bereit sei, sich seine Fotografien anzusehen. Als Paul mehr über Auggies grosse Leidenschaft, das Fotografieren, erfahren will, erzählt dieser ihm eine Geschichte: von einem Ladendiebstahl, einer verlorenen Geldbörse und dem kleinen Schwindel, den er einer alten, blinden Frau vorspielt. Eine echte Weihnachtsgeschichte eben (ICY)verlagsinfo

Une ville au bout du monde, cernée de murs, livrée à la désagrégation, dont les habitants tâchent de subsister en fouillant dans les détritus. De ce « pays des choses dernières », comme l’appelle le titre original du roman, la jeune Anna Blume écrit à un ami d’enfance. Venue à la recherche de son frère disparu, elle raconte ses errances dans les rues éventrées, sa lutte contre le froid, les prédations, le désespoir. Le romancier de L’Invention de la solitude et de la Trilogie new-yorkaise nous entraîne ici dans un de ces univers, à mi-chemin du réel et du symbolique, dont il a le secret. Sur les pas d’Anna Blume et de quelques autres, résolus comme elle à ne pas s’anéantir dans l’abjection et la violence, nous traversons une fin du monde qui ressemble par bien des traits à notre monde. Avec eux, aux dernières pages du livre, nous serons conviés à rêver d’un autre départ, vers d’autres contrées…

Der Film «Smoke» erzählt die Geschichte mehrerer völlig unterschiedlicher Menschen, deren Lebenswege sich auf seltsame Weise in einem Brooklyner Zigarrenladen kreuzen. «Blue in the Face» ist eine hinreißende, skurrile Liebeserklärung an Brooklyn, jenen Stadtteil New Yorks, in dem nichts so läuft, wie man es erwartet. Die Drehbücher zu beiden Filmen schrieb Paul Auster; Wayne Wang führte Regie. Neben den Hauptdarstellern Harvey Keizel und William Hurt spielen u. a. Lou Reed, Jim Jarmusch, Roseanne, Michael J. Fox und Madonna mit. «Smoke» wurde auf der Berlinale 1995 mit dem Silbernen Bären ausgezeichnet.

A graphic novel classic with a new introduction by Art Spiegelman Quinn writes mysteries. The Washington Post has described him as a “post-existentialist private eye.” An unknown voice on the telephone is now begging for his help, drawing him into a world and a mystery far stranger than any he ever created in print. Adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli, with graphics by David Mazzucchelli, Paul Auster’s groundbreaking, Edgar Award-nominated masterwork has been astonishingly transformed into a new visual language.

Pubblicati per la prima volta tra il 1985 e il 1987, i tre romanzi Città di vetro, Fantasmi, La stanza chiusa, che compongono Trilogia di New York, sono diventati dei classici della letteratura contemporanea americana. Sono tre detectives-stories eccentriche e avvincenti in cui Auster inventa una sua New York fantastica, un "nessun luogo" in cui ciascuno può ritrovarsi e perdersi all'infinito. Anna Blume era partita alla ricerca del fratello giornalista, scomparso senza lasciare traccia durante un reportage, ed è approdata "Nel paese delle ultime cose", ormai per lei e per tutti non c'è più possibilità di salvezza, di fuga. La definitiva catastrofe si è compiuta ma nonostante tutto Anna resiste e si aggrappa a tutte le sue forze per sopravvivere salvando in qualche luogo della sua coscienza una traccia di irrinunciabile umanità, una testimonianza di amicizia, persino d'amore. Il protagonista di "Moon Palace", Marco Stanley Fogg, orfano di un padre mai conosciuto ma eternamente cercato, tra coincidenze improbabili e intricati itinerari della memoria, dipana il suo mistero familiare, con un gusto per l'intreccio di sapore ottocentesco, ripercorrendo a ritroso il proprio e altrui passato lungo l'arco di tre generazioni: dall'estate del primo allunaggio fino agli albori del ventesimo secolo.

Ein einzigartiger Zugang zu Austers Werk Jedes seiner Bücher ist für Paul Auster eine Reise auf einer unbekannten Straße. Zusammen mit der Professorin Inge Birgitte Siegumfeldt hat er sich aufgemacht, diese Reisen noch einmal aus der Rückschau zu betrachten. Drei Jahre lang trafen sich beide zu Gesprächen über Austers Bücher. In einem intensiven, persönlichen Dialog erkunden sie seine großen Romane und die autobiographischen Texte. Auster gibt dabei einen intimen Einblick in seine Arbeit, erzählt amüsante Anekdoten und spricht offen wie selten über Inspirationsquellen und Motivation. Die scharfsinnigen Fragen und Gedanken Siegumfeldts fordern den Autor heraus, und so entsteht ein überraschender, kluger Austausch zweier Literaturliebhaber.

Cette aventure qui démarre comme un thriller se poursuit sur le mode de la quête métaphysique. La ville de New York, illimitée, insaisissable, lieu privilégié des rencontres aléatoires, est le gigantesque échiquier sur lequel Paul Auster dispose ses pions pour parler de dépossession.

Professore universitario e critico di prestigio, David Zimmer trascorre le sue giornate in uno stato di semicoscienza alcolica davanti alla tv da quando ha perso moglie e figli in un incidente aereo. Ma una sera un vecchio film comico del cinema muto lo scuote dal torpore: il regista del film, Hector Mann, è scomparso nel 1929 all'apice della sua carriera. Affascinato, Zimmer decide di ricostruire la vicenda e, dopo accurate documentazioni, pubblica un libro sull'argomento. Ma, a un anno dalla pubblicazione, una lettera spedita da una cittadina del New Mexico arriva a confondere tutte le sue conclusioni: è firmata dalla moglie di Mann e dice che il regista sarebbe lieto di incontrare il suo biografo.

«Eine literarische Sensation.» Sunday Times Jeder der drei Romane der New-York-Trilogie wirkt zunächst wie eine klassische, spannungsgeladene Kriminalgeschichte. Alle drei ziehen den Leser mit raffiniert ausgelegten «Ködern» in ihren Bann. Aber bald scheinen die vordergründig logischen Zusammenhänge nicht mehr zu stimmen. Täter werden auf rätselhafte Weise zu Opfern, Verfolger zu Verfolgten. Schritt für Schritt wird auch der unabhängige Beobachter, ob Leser oder Detektiv, in ein Spiel mit seinen eigenen Erwartungen verstrickt.Paul Austers drei große New-York-Romane in einem Band.

Op 3 maart 1947 wordt, twee weken te vroeg, Archibald Isaac Ferguson geboren, het enige kind van Rose en Stanley Ferguson. Archibalds leven zal gelijktijdig vier verschillende paden volgen. Vier identieke Archibalds, bestaand uit hetzelfde dna, vier jongens die fysiek een en dezelfde zijn, leiden vier parallelle en volstrekt verschillende levens. Elk levenspad neemt een andere richting. Liefdes en vriendschappen en intellectuele interesses contrasteren. Een jongen groeit keer op keer op. Iedere Archibald zal verliefd worden op Amy Schneiderman, maar hun relatie zal steeds een andere zijn. Lezers zullen meegenieten van Archibalds successen, en meeleven met de tragische gebeurtenissen die hem overkomen. Zo ontvouwen de levensverhalen van de vier Archibalds zich.

2008, kurz nachdem sie sich in Australien begegnet waren, schrieb J. M. Coetzee an Paul Auster in New York und bot ihm an, gemeinsam einen Briefwechsel zu führen. Bis 2011 debattieren sie freimütig sie über den Lauf der Welt: von Tennis bis Vatersein, von erotischer Attraktion bis Finanzkrise, von Hochzeit zu Liebe. Scharfsinnig denken sie über unsere Gegenwart nach und bieten dem Leser in ihren manchmal ausgelassenen Briefen Einblick in ihr Leben und ein ungeschütztes Porträt ihrer Freundschaft. Und sie erklären, warum es manchmal besser ist, Laub zu harken, als Romane zu lesen.

Werner Schmitz ist seit 1981 als Übersetzer tätig, u. a. von Malcolm Lowry, John le Carré, Ernest Hemingway, Philip Roth und Paul Auster. 2011 erhielt er den Heinrich Maria Ledig-Rowohlt-Preis. Er lebt in der Lüneburger Heide. Paul Auster wurde 1947 in Newark, New Jersey, geboren. Er studierte Anglistik und vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft an der Columbia University und verbrachte nach dem Studium einige Jahre in Frankreich. International bekannt wurde er mit seinen Romanen Im Land der letzten Dinge und der New-York-Trilogie. Sein umfangreiches, vielfach preisgekröntes Werk umfasst neben zahlreichen Romanen auch Essays und Gedichte sowie Übersetzungen zeitgenössischer Lyrik.

New York: rastlos, kreativ und unüberschaubar - vielbeschriebenes Sinnbild futuristischer Visionen und pulsierender Gegenwart. Paul Auster hat sich von der Metropole inspirieren lassen wie kaum ein anderer Künstler zuvor. Eine Unter- und Nebenwelt voll merkwürdiger Figuren und Ereignisse, ein antipodisches Negativ des Glitzers von Times Square und Fifth Avenue. «Mein New York» ist ein literarisches Stadtmosaik, komponiert aus Austers Werken. Ein wunderschöner Band über die Stadt der Städte.

«Von der Hand in den Mund» ist ein amüsantes Porträt des Künstlers als hungernder Mann vor dem Hintergrund der bewegten sechziger und siebziger Jahre. Der schnöde Mammon spielt darin die entscheidende Rolle als Metapher für den Tanz um das Goldene Kalb, als Fessel der Gesellschaft, als schlichtes Überlebensmittel. Auster beschreibt seinen ebenso kompromißlosen wie krummen Werdegang voller Selbstironie, aber auch mit der Sicherheit des gereiften Künstlers, für den der Weg seiner Identitätssuche stets das Ziel war. Und er komplettiert das Lesevergnügen, indem er im Anhang einen Teil seiner frühen Werke erstmals zugänglich macht.

Dopo aver superato una grave malattia, Sidney Orr, uno scrittore trentenne, cerca di ricominciare a vivere. Durante una passeggiata a Brooklyn, scopre un taccuino blu in una cartoleria e, attratto dalla sua semplicità, decide di acquistarlo. Questo taccuino diventa per Sidney una fonte di ispirazione: in nove giorni scrive l'inizio di un romanzo, un trattamento cinematografico e riflessioni su un tragico evento, mentre cerca di comprendere misteri che minacciano la sua vita e quella di sua moglie, Grace. Con il passare del tempo, la linea tra finzione e realtà si sfuma; le sue scritture sembrano premonizioni del futuro. Sidney inizia a sospettare che Grace, l'amico scrittore John Trause e persino il misterioso proprietario della cartoleria, Mr. Chang, nascondano segreti. Trasformandosi in detective, segue il consiglio di Trause e cerca di decifrare il mistero. Quando la verità emerge in tutta la sua cruda violenza, Sidney, per amore di Grace, decide di rinunciare per sempre al potere del taccuino blu.

Pour ce deuxième livre de sa Trilogie new-yorkaise, Paul Auster met en scène d'autres personnages que ceux de Cité de verre. Les protagonistes ici se nomment Blanc, Bleu et Noir. Mais deux d'entre eux sont à nouveau des détectives privés et leurs tribulations à New York mettent une fois encore en évidence la précarité de l'identité en même temps que les très pervers effets de miroir du destin. De telle sorte que l'impitoyable filature, à laquelle on demeure suspendu comme dans les meilleurs thrillers, nous ramène aux interrogations du premier livre. Avec, cette fois, une intensité croissante dans le tragique. On comprend après cela que l'ascension de Paul Auster, parmi les écrivains de sa génération, ait été aussi irrésistible que la métaphysique angoisse où il nous plonge.

Dies ist Paul Austers sehr persönliche Abrechnung mit der Vergottung des Waffentragens in der amerikanischen Kultur und Gesellschaft. Er erzählt davon zunächst in biografischen Vignetten, beginnend bei den Spielzeugcolts der Kindheit und den Western im Fernsehen. Es folgen die ersten Einschläge im näheren Umfeld, der von der Großmutter erschossene Großvater – lange Zeit ein Familiengeheimnis, von dem Auster nur durch Zufall erfuhr. Von da aus geht er zurück in die amerikanische Geschichte und erklärt, warum die Waffe in der Hand des freien Bürgers in direkter Linie aus der Gewalt der Sklavenhaltergesellschaft hervorgegangen ist. Der Streit ums Waffentragen führt ins Zentrum der aktuellen Auseinandersetzungen um die Gestaltung des amerikanischen Gesellschaftssystems. Auster zeigt sich hier als ebenso polemischer wie klarsichtiger politischer Beobachter und Kommentator. Der Text wird begleitet von Fotos des US-Fotografen Spencer Ostrander – in ihrer Stille gespenstisch eindrückliche Schwarz-Weiß-Aufnahmen der Schauplätze bekannter Massaker.

Odin chelovek. Chetyre parallelnye zhizni. Archi Ferguson budet rozhden odnazhdy. Iz edinogo nachala vyjdut chetyre realnye po svoemu vymyslu zhizni - parallelnye i nezavisimye drug ot druga. Chetyre Fergusona, sdelannye iz odnoj DNK, prozhivut sovershenno po-raznomu. Semejnye sudby budut varirovatsja. Druzhby, vljublennosti, intellektualnye i fizicheskie sposobnosti budut kontrastirovat. Pri kazhdom povorote sudby chitatel ispytaet radost ili bol vmeste s geroem.