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Man in the Darkby: Paul Auster August 21, 2008 |
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`I am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle though another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness.'
Man in the Dark opens with August Brill, a Pulitzer prize winning critic, lying in the pitch black as he recovers from a car accident in his daughter's house. Grandfather, daughter Miriam and granddaughter Katya share the house since the `the roof fell in on Katya' and she dropped out of film school. Brill tells himself stories as he lies awake - he wants to divert his mind from his worries; the death of his wife, of his granddaughter's boyfriend Titus, of his daughter's failed marriage. He and his granddaughter Katya have been spending their time watching ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts" and "Locked Room"by: Paul Auster February 05, 2004 |
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My short recommendation is that as soon as I finished this book I wanted to turn back to the first page and read it again. I suspect you keep drawing new things from it the more times you read it. Just like listening to very good music...
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Mr Vertigoby: Paul Auster January 05, 2006 |
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It's impossible to write about Paul Auster's Mr Vertigo and completely avoid the dreaded term `Magic Realism' - even if it's a genre the writer is not commonly associated with. The fact that the novel centres around a street urchin taught how to fly by a Hungarian showman named Master Yehudi should ensure all haters of that genre keep their distance. However, it's all in the telling, and Auster infuses his novel with a page-turning, fairy-tale magic with none of the prissiness and pretention that often mars revisionistic approaches to the form. If, like Henry Perowne of Ian McEwan's `Saturday`, you find the focus on "the supernatural" as "the recourse of an insufficient imagination ... an evasion of the difficulties and wonders of the real", then you might ... Read More:
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The Brooklyn Folliesby: Paul Auster September 07, 2006 |
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I came to 'The Brooklyn Follies' after reading 'The Book of Illusions' and 'The Music of Chance.' If you are looking for a similiar experience you have come to the wrong place. The characters while engaging and well written, especially Tom, do not have the same depth or pathos of other Auster narratives. The story is decidedly 'heart warming' and while there is absolutely nothing wrong with that, the solutions Nathan presents to life's problem's are, at times, a little one dimensional and contrived. I also agree with other reviewers that the use of 9/11 was a little clumsy. Having said all this, I did still very much enjoy this book as Auster is an accomplished, interesting and engaging writer who does raise interesting questions and themes ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Moon Palaceby: Paul Auster April 01, 1990 |
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This is the first Paul Auster novel I have read. It took me a while to get into it, the first 20 pages or so were difficult to absorb but then I couldn't put it down. I love his style of story telling and shall definately read more of his.
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The Music of Chanceby: Paul Auster January 05, 2006 |
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I'm having a sudden urge to raid Paul Auster's works, following up `Mr. Vertigo` with `The Music of Chance`, a book I had long-neglected but somehow - like an Auster character, perhaps - convinced myself I had already read. This is probably because of the low-key but cultish film adaptation starring James Spader and M. Emmet Walsh that burned a peculiar and indelible mark on my brain. Once I had picked up `The Music of Chance', though, it was very difficult to put down, a quality common to the author's novels. There's something in the rhythm of Auster's writing, in his unknotty way of describing incremental and inexorable changes in his characters' fortunes, that makes his works compelling and - in this case - quite distressing. `The Music of Chance' has the curious quality of ... Read More:
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The Book of Illusionsby: Paul Auster September 04, 2003 |
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This novel, a moving allegory of love, loss and the surprising ways in which healing reveals itself, was written in such a way that I was tempted to believe that Hector Mann truly existed. Even though I know Mr. Mann is a fictional character created entirely in the phenomenal mind of Paul Auster, I was vaguely disappointed that I wouldn't be able to seek his films out and fall further in love with him as I have with Buster Keaton and various others. I highly recommend this book to film buffs, to people who enjoy a wonderfully-written story, and to anyone who is tired of the pablum passed off as "literature" as a general rule. You will be turning pages late into the night, and not regret a moment of missed sleep.
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Leviathan (Faber Fiction Classics)by: Paul Auster April 09, 2001 |
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Having recently read Leviathan and The Music of Chance, I can't help but fear that anything Auster has done or will do after 1987 will always be dwarfed by The New York Trilogy. There is nothing wrong with Leviathan as entertainment - it is a fast-paced page turner with an interesting plot and enjoyable (if incomplete) characterisation. The problem is it feels like an early work by a writer of potential, not one by a great writer coming after such a masterpiece as NYT. The thematics go in too many different directions - philosophical, political and sensational - and the second half of the novel feels rushed, heading towards a conclusion that contains only a half-hearted version of the metafictive brilliance that we know Auster is capable of. Too many of the plot-lines go nowhere in the end, and ... Read More:
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Timbuktuby: Paul Auster January 03, 2008 |
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One of America's greatest living writers. Another superb offering from Auster. This is shorter than some of his other books. His depiction of the relationship between man and dog is heart rendering and full of compassion. Auster is just so clever with his fable-type ideas and is certainly up there with Mr Vertigo and Music of Chance. If you are looking for an intelligent read, full of creativity and sensitivity then Auster really is your man. He really does understand the complexity of story telling.
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True Tales of American Lifefrom: Faber and Faber October 07, 2002 |
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It's a book which gives you a pleasure to red. It's ab overview of american lifestyle caming form the story of the people. those stories which are far from the classic literature and therefore more genuine and true.
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