Paul Auster Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

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.

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.

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.[Bokinfo].

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.

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.

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

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.

"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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cosa sarebbe successo se invece di quella scelta ne avessimo fatta un’altra? Che persone saremmo oggi se quel giorno non avessimo perso il treno, se avessimo risposto al saluto di quella ragazza, se ci fossimo iscritti a quell’altra scuola, se… A volte per raccontare una vita non basta una sola storia. Il 3 marzo 1947, a Newark, nasce il primo e unico figlio di Rose e Stanley: Archie Ferguson. Da questo punto si dipanano quattro sentieri, le quattro vite possibili, eppure reali, di Archie. Campione dello sport o inquieto giornalista, attivista o scrittore vagabondo, le sue traiettorie sono diverse ma tutte, misteriosamente, incrociano lei, Amy. Paul Auster ha scritto una sinfonia maestosa suonando i tasti del destino e del caso: un libro che mette d’accordo Borges e Dickens, un’avventura vertiginosa e scatenata, unica e molteplice come la vita di ognuno.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Empieza Ciudad de cristal, con un escritor de novela policiaca que, por azar, se ve actuando como un detective por las calles de la ciudad de los rascacielos mientras se cuestiona quién es en realidad. En Fantasmas, se conforma un laberinto de búsquedas que Azul, el detective, deberá desentrañar. En La habitación cerrada, el protagonista recibe el encargo de buscar a un amigo de la infancia desaparecido que ha dejado una maleta llena de manuscritos inéditos que deseaba que fueran publicados, por razones un tanto confusas.En las obras de Paul Auster, los acontecimientos se precipitan tras sucesos de una naturaleza, aparentemente, insignificante: lo pequeño marca la diferencia y el azar condiciona las decisiones. La investigación de lo otro se convierte en la búsqueda de uno mismo, en el afán de hallar una identidad propia y distintiva.

«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.

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.

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.

Diese Interpretationshilfe in deutscher Sprache erleichtert den Einstieg in die Lektüre und vertieft das Verständnis des Romans. Optimal für die Vorbereitung auf Unterricht, Klausuren und das Abitur. Mit Hintergrundinformationen zu Autor und Werk, Inhaltsangabe und einer ausführlichen Interpretation des Textes unter folgenden Gesichtspunkten: literarische Einordnung; Personenkonstellation und Charakterisierung; zentrale Themen und Motive; Aufbau und Textstruktur; Interpretation von Schlüsselstellen.

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.

Perché si è sempre sentito colpevole per la morte accidentale del suo fratellastro, Miles si è escluso dalla propria storia. Ha lasciato la sua famiglia, abbandonato gli studi e lavora in Florida per liberare le case abbandonate dalle vittime della crisi dei subprime. Innamorato di una ragazza troppo giovane, Miles diventa presto oggetto di ricatto e costretto a fuggire di nuovo. Trova rifugio a Brooklyn, dove il suo fedele amico Bing Nathan occupa una casa fatiscente insieme a due giovani donne, anch'esse emarginate dall'impossibilità di esprimere o far valere i propri talenti. Ora Miles è geograficamente più vicino a suo padre, un editore indipendente che cerca di affrontare la crisi finanziaria, salvare la sua casa editrice e preservare la sua relazione. Confrontato con il crollo delle certezze di una generazione, attende un'occasione per riconnettersi con suo figlio e curare ferite di cui ignora l'irreparabilità. Con questo romanzo sull'estinzione delle possibilità in una società disorientata, Paul Auster rende omaggio a un'umanità ferita in cerca di un posto in un mondo privo di memoria, dove la violenza ha sostituito la speranza.

Il mancato riconoscimento del valore dell'Unità nazionale, il subdolo meccanismo della macchina del fango, l'espansione della criminalità organizzata al Nord, l'infinita emergenza rifiuti a Napoli, le troppe tragedie annunciate. Accanto alla denuncia c'è anche il racconto - commosso e ammirato - di vite vissute con onestà e coraggio: la sfida senz'armi di don Giacomo Panizza alla 'ndrangheta calabrese, la lotta di Piergiorgio Welby in nome della vita e del diritto, la difesa della Costituzione di Piero Calamandrei. Otto capitoli, otto storie, un ritratto dell'Italia di oggi che scava dentro alcune delle ferite vecchie e nuove che affliggono il nostro Paese. Esempi su cui possiamo ancora contare per risollevarci e costruire un'Italia diversa. Ideato e condotto da Roberto Saviano e Fabio Fazio, "Vieni via con me" è stato l'evento televisivo del 2010, più seguito delle partite di Champions League e dei reality show. Ora è un libro che rende di nuovo accessibili al pubblico queste storie in una forma ampiamente rivista e arricchita. Facendole diventare, ancora una volta, storie di tutti.

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

Poet and student Adam Walker meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent, seductive girlfriend, Margot, sending Adam into a perverse triangle that leads to a shocking act of violence that will alter his life.

Tytułowy "człowiek w ciemności", August Brill, emerytowany krytyk literacki po przejściach, cierpi na chroniczną bezsenność. Przykuty do łóżka w domu córki opowiada sobie historie, byle jak najdalej odegnać myśli od nieszczęść, o których wolałby zapomnieć: niedawnej śmierci żony i ohydnym publicznym zamordowaniu narzeczonego wnuczki. W jego wyobraźni rodzi się cały równoległy świat, w którym Ameryka nie toczy wojny z Irakiem, lecz sama z sobą; co prawda wieże World Trade Center stoją tutaj nienaruszone, ale wybory prezydenckie z roku 2000 doprowadziły do krwawej secesji i wybuchu wojny domowej. Wyparte myśli domagają się jednak głosu: na krótko przed świtem Brill otworzy swoje wnętrze przed ukochaną wnuczką.

Uomo nel buio è dedicato allo scrittore israeliano David Grossman e alla memoria di suo figlio Uri, morto nelle ultime ore di combattimento di una guerra inutile. Nel libro Auster racconta la storia di August Brill, un anziano recensore costretto a letto da un incidente, che per tenere a bada i suoi fantasmi nelle interminabili ore di una notte insonne immagina una storia in cui l'America è in piena guerra di secessione, dopo che alcuni stati, guidati da New York, sono usciti dall'Unione in seguito alla contestata elezione di George W. Bush del 2000. L'11 settembre 2001 non è successo niente di particolare, ma la guerra infiamma tutti gli Stati Uniti e l'unico modo per risolvere il problema è uccidere chi ha immaginato tutto questo, August Brill (da cui il geniale titolo della recensione del Jerusalem Post: «Kill Brill»). Da quest'ossatura metaletteraria, in tutto e per tutto un omaggio alle distopie di Philip K. Dick (c'è persino una ragazza dai capelli scuri che manovra occultamente il protagonista), prende carne e sangue la vera storia che Auster vuole raccontare e che August Brill vuole dimenticare, l'America vera della «war on terror», la moglie morta di cancro, gli indicibili orrori della guerra in Iraq da un lato e dall'altro la commovente tenerezza della nipote di Brill, la sorgente di luce che rischiarerà un poco il buio che avvolge August Brill e l'America.

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. .

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.

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.

שלוש נובלות הקשורות זו בזו, המהוות את היצירה האיקונית של פול אוסטר, מתמקדות בהדרגה בהתרסקות של הדמות הראשית. הדמות המרכזית בכל אחת מהן נתונה לרעיון קבוע, כתוצאה ממנו מתערער כל חייה הקודמים. במקרה אחד מדובר בסופר מתח שחוקר מקרה, במקרה השני זהו בלש שעוקב אחרי סופר, ובמקרה השלישי סופר שמנסה למצוא חבר מילדות, לאחר שזה מינה אותו כמבצע של צוואתו הספרותית. היצירה של אוסטר כל כך רב-שכבתית, שהיא נגישה לקוראים עם כל מיני תחומי עניין ורקע תרבותי. האם זו מטה-ספרות? או שמא סופר שנכנס עמוק מדי לתוך הספרות משחק עם הז'אנר הבלשי? גם וגם.

Raggiunta ormai l'età della pensione, Nathan Glass ritorna a Brooklyn, la città dov'è nato e che ha lasciato quasi sessant'anni prima. Trasloca a Brooklyn con l'intenzione precisa di cercare un buon posto per morire. Ma il caso ha deciso per lui diversamente. Gli amori infelici del nipote Tom, le avventure del libraio-falsario Harry Brightman, l'apparizione improvvisa della piccola Lucy, che rifiuta di svelare dove si trova sua madre, sorella di Tom. Nathan pensava di dedicarsi a un progetto, la scrittura di un Libro della follia umana, ma le follie sono lí, appena fuori dalla porta, nel piú vivo e colorato angolo di New York. Come in Smoke e in Blue in the Face, la città e un suo quartiere, Park Slope, diventano straordinari protagonisti. Paul Auster scrive, con Follie di Brooklyn, una commedia dalla trama apparentemente spensierata. Una commedia che termina però la mattina dell'11 settembre 2001, data oltre la quale i lieto fine diventeranno di colpo piú amari e difficili.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Román amerického autora, jehož ústředním tématem je paměť a její utváření v životě jedince. V první části, nazvané Portrét neviditelného muže, autor popisuje vzpomínky a pocity, jež v něm vyvolává smrt jeho otce, odtažitého a zdrženlivého muže. Vyřizování pozůstalosti přivádí vypravěče k rekonstrukci důvodů otcova samotářského života. Náhodně odkrývá utajenou šedesát let starou rodinnou vraždu, která je i pozdním klíčem k pochopení obtížného otcova charakteru a vztah v typické rodině amerických židovských přistěhovalců. V druhé části, Knize paměti, která je vlastně eseji o minulosti a jejím vztahu k přítomnému okamžiku, se vypravěč neustále pohybuje na hranici mezi fiktivním světem slova a skutečností. Prostřednictvím mozaiky obrazů, analogií, mytologických či biblických odkazů a aluzí vytváří svět, jenž ho v samotě jeho vyprávění spojuje jak se světem odloučeného syna, tak s minulostí jeho předků a jejich příběhů.

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.

Abituati a viaggiare insieme sulle strade americane, Willy, poeta giramondo, e Mr Bones, cane dalla spiccata intelligenza, vengono separati dai freddi giochi del destino. Mr Bones dovrà imparare a cavarsela da solo e a difendersi anche da chi sembrerà volerlo aiutare. Così continuerà a fuggire, finché in lui si farà strada la convinzione di poter raggiungere Willy a Timbuctù, terra favolosa dove uomini e cani parlano la stessa lingua e conversano da pari a pari. Che cosa sia davvero Timbuctù, Mr Bones non lo sa, a parte qualche frase sibillina buttata lì da Willy nei suoi discorsi di poeta maledetto e infaticabile clochard. Eppure è proprio in quel luogo che un brutto giorno il poeta se n'è andato lasciando solo il fedele quadrupede.

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.

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.

De tre sammenkoblede noveller, der udgør det emblematiske værk fra slutningen af det 20. århundrede, bevæger sig på kanten af genrerne, og nogle kritikere klassificerer dem endda som kriminalromaner. Alle tre følger kronologisk hovedpersonens gradvise nedbrydning. Detektiven i dem er uundgåeligt besat af en fikseret idé, hvilket får hele hans hidtidige liv til at krakelere. I den ene novelle er det en kriminalforfatter, der påtager sig en undersøgelse, i den anden er det en detektiv, der overvåger en forfatter, og i den tredje handler det om en forfatter, der forsøger at finde en barndomsven, da denne har gjort ham til eksekutor af sit litterære testamente. Austers værk er så flerlaget, at det faktisk bliver tilgængeligt for læsere med alle mulige interesser og kulturelle baggrunde. Er det metalitteratur (eller meta-krimi)? Eller spiller en forfatter, der er gået for dybt ind i litteraturen, bare med kriminalgenren? Begge dele.

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.

In this acrobatic and virtuosic collection, Paul Auster traces the compulsion to make literature. In a selection of interviews, as well as in the essay 'The Red Notebook' itself, Auster reflects upon 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 Red Notebook both illuminates and undermines our accepted notions about literature, and guides us towards a finer understanding of the dangerously high stakes involved in writing. It also includes Paul Auster's impassioned essay 'A Prayer for Salman Rushdie', as well as a set of striking and bittersweet reminiscences collected under the apposite title, 'Why Write?'

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.

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.

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.

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.

Walt meets Master Yehudi, a dark and mysterious character who sets him on the road to stardom. He is taken to a strange house where he learns first to walk on water and, eventually, to fly.

Die drei miteinander verbundenen Novellen, aus denen das emblematische Werk des modernen Klassikers der amerikanischen Literatur Paul Auster besteht, bewegen sich am Rand der Genres, wobei einige Kritiker sie sogar dem Detektivgenre zuordnen. Alle drei verfolgen chronologisch den allmählichen Zerfall des Hauptcharakters. Der Detektiv in ihnen ist unweigerlich von einer Fixidee besessen, infolgedessen sein ganzes bisheriges Leben zerbricht. In einem Fall ist es ein Kriminalschriftsteller, der sich mit einer Untersuchung beschäftigt, in der zweiten Novelle ist es ein Detektiv, der einen Schriftsteller beobachtet, und in der dritten geht es um einen Schriftsteller, der versucht, einen Freund aus der Kindheit zu finden, da dieser ihn zum Vollstrecker seines literarischen Testaments gemacht hat. Austers Werk ist so vielschichtig, dass es tatsächlich für Leser mit den unterschiedlichsten Interessen und kulturellem Hintergrund zugänglich ist. Ist das Met literatur (oder Meta-Kriminalroman)? Oder spielt ein Autor, der zu tief in die Literatur eingetaucht ist, einfach mit dem Detektivgenre? Beides.

When his closest friend, Benjamin Sachs, accidentally blows himself up on a Wisconsin road, Peter Aaron attempts to piece together the life that led to Sach's tragic demise and determine the reason for his death.

"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

¿Existe una necesidad interna de la literatura? ¿Se diferencian los grandes libros de los demás porque debían ser escritos? En sus ensayos sobre Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Paul Celan, Knut Hamsun y otros grandes autores del siglo XX, Paul Auster explora las condiciones existenciales de la escritura. Sus estudios revelan por qué se le considera el más europeo de los importantes escritores estadounidenses. En cuatro entrevistas detalladas, también ofrece información sobre su propia obra y habla de la necesidad de difuminar la frontera entre escribir y vivir.

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.

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.”

Un'eredità imprevista determina una svolta nella vita di Jim Nashe, il protagonista della "Musica del caso". Jim molla il lavoro, lascia sua figlia e, alla guida di una fiammante Saab 900, vagabonda per un anno intero avanti e indietro attraverso l'America. Sempre casualmente incontra Jack Pozzi, un giovanissimo giocatore d'azzardo, reduce da una rocambolesca avventura notturna. Con ciò che resta dell'eredità di Nashe i due decidono di portare avanti il progetto di Pozzi: battere a poker Flower e Stone, due miliardari per caso (hanno vinto una grossa somma con un biglietto della lotteria). Ma le cose non vanno nel modo sperato. Così quello che sembrava essere un classico romanzo on the road, con un eroe che attraversa l'America sconfinata, si trasforma in un altro tipo di avventura: un romanzo sull'azzardo, e sul potere sconfinato del Caso.

Spanning three generations, and illuminated by marvelous flights of lyricism and wit, Moon Palace follows an orphan child of the sixties as he seeks the key to his past and the answers to the riddle of his fate.

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.

Nominated for an Edgar award for best mystery of the year, City of Glass inaugurates an intriguing New York Trilogy of novels that The Washington Post Book World has classified as "post-existentialist private eye... It's as if Kafka has gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned his own ever-spiraling version." 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. Written with hallucinatory clarity, City of Glass combines dark humor with Hitchcock-like suspense. Ghosts and The Locked Room are the next two brilliant installments in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy.

In una città stravolta e allucinata, in cui ogni cosa si confonde e chiunque è sostituibile, i protagonisti di queste storie conducono ciascuno un'inchiesta misteriosa e dall'esito imprevedibile. Tutto può cominciare con una telefonata nel cuore della notte, come nel caso di Daniel Quinn ( Città di vetro ), autore di romanzi polizieschi che accetta la sfida che gli si presenta e si cala nei panni di un detective sconosciuto. Ma può anche capitare che chi debba pedinare si senta a sua volta pedinato ( Fantasmi ); o, ancora, che ci sia qualcuno che s'immedesima a tal punto nella vita di un amico da sposarne la vedova e adottarne il figlio... ( La stanza chiusa ). Tre detective-stories eccentriche e avvincenti in cui Paul Auster inventa una sua New York fantastica, un «nessun luogo» in cui ciascuno può ritrovarsi e perdersi all'infinito. Ed è proprio nell'invenzione di questa solitudine che i personaggi della Trilogia misurano il proprio io e scoprono il loro vero destino.

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.