Invention of Solitude Paul Auster

Name: Invention of Solitude von Paul Auster
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Zusammenfassung

A work of fiction which represents the author's personal meditation on fatherhood. The first section reveals his memories and feelings after the death of his father, and in the second the perspective shifts to Auster's own role as a father.

Invention of Solitude Zusammenfassung

Invention of Solitude Paul Auster

'One day there is life.and then, suddenly, it happens there is death.' So begins The Invention of Solitude, Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood.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 story-telling and writing.'Integrates heart and intellect, sensation and speculation.as it relentlessly tries to make sense of the shocks of living.' Newsday

Über Paul Auster

Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey in the United States in 1947. He graduated from Columbia University with an MA degree. In 1970 he worked as a merchant seaman on an Esso oil tanker. From 1971 to 1974 he lived in France, spending two years in Paris and one in Provence. After returning to New York in 1974, he began his writing career.Throughout the 1970s he wrote mainly poetry and essays which appeared in various magazines including the New York Review of Books. During 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 to coincide with the release of the film, and in 1999 Faber published the screenplay Lulu on the Bridge. The Art of Hunger (a collection of essays, interviews and prose) and his Selected Poems were published in November 1998.He is the author of nine novels, including The New York Trilogy

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Sku

GOR001370548

ISBN 13

9780571154142

ISBN 10

057115414X

Titel

Invention of Solitude Paul Auster

Autor

Paul Auster

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Faber & Faber

Datum

19881024

Anzahl der Seiten

192

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