Paul Auster Boeken

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.

Sunset Park volgt de lotgevallen van een schitterende cast aan personages tijdens de diepste duisternis van de economische crisis van 2008. Een mysterieuze jongen in Florida, die de appartementen moet leeghalen van mensen die hun huis uit zijn gezet. Bijna dwangmatig fotografeert hij duizenden inderhaast achtergelaten voorwerpen. Een groep jonge mensen die in een kraakpand wonen in Sunset park, Brooklyn. Een beroemde actrice die zich voorbereid op haar terugkeer naar Broadway. Een uitgever die wanhopig probeert zijn bedrijf en zijn huwelijk te redden. Een ziekenhuis voor Kapotte Spullen. Dit zijn een paar van de elementen die alchemist Auster tot puur goud weet om te smeden. Een ontroerende roman over hedendaags Amerika en zijn demonen.

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.

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

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.

'Exhilarating.' Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement Books of the Year'Sharp-eyed and revealing.' The New Yorker'Brilliant .

'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.