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Paul Auster

Author of The New York Trilogy

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About the Author

Paul Auster was born on February 3, 1947, in Newark, New Jersey. He received a B.A. and a M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. In addition to his career as a writer, Auster has been a census taker, tutor, merchant seaman, little-league baseball coach, and a telephone show more operator. He started his writing career as a translator. He soon gained popularity for the detective novels that make up his New York Trilogy. His other works include The Invention of Solitude; Leviathan; Moon Palace; Facing the Music; In the Country of Last Things; The Music of Chance; Mr. Vertigo; and The Brooklyn Follies. His latest novels are entitled, Invisible and Sunset Park. In addition to his novels, Auster has written screenplays and directed several films. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a French Prix Medicis for Foreign Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Series

Works by Paul Auster

The New York Trilogy (1985) 9,817 copies
The Book of Illusions (2002) 4,228 copies
The Brooklyn Follies (2005) 4,056 copies
Moon Palace (1989) 3,381 copies
Oracle Night (2003) 3,159 copies
Leviathan (1992) 2,788 copies
Timbuktu (1999) 2,520 copies
The Music of Chance (1990) 2,197 copies
Mr. Vertigo (1994) 2,183 copies
Invisible (2009) 2,174 copies
Travels in the Scriptorium (2006) 2,047 copies
Man in the Dark (2008) 1,899 copies
In the Country of Last Things (1987) 1,839 copies
4 3 2 1 (2017) 1,835 copies
The Invention of Solitude (1982) 1,701 copies
City of Glass (1985) 1,450 copies
Sunset Park (2010) 1,442 copies
True Tales of American Life (2001) 1,322 copies
City of Glass: The Graphic Novel (1994) — Original Author — 1,222 copies
Winter Journal (2012) 879 copies
Ghosts (1986) 492 copies
The Locked Room (1987) 426 copies
Report from the Interior (2013) 328 copies
Baumgartner (2023) 204 copies
The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry (1982) — Editor — 197 copies
Smoke and Blue in the Face (1995) 188 copies
Collected Poems (2004) 158 copies
Lulu on the Bridge (1998) 144 copies
The Story of My Typewriter (2002) 107 copies
Squeeze Play (1997) 89 copies
Bloodbath Nation (2023) 88 copies
Disappearances (1988) 80 copies
Why Write? (1996) 50 copies
Paul Auster's New York (1997) 50 copies
Merry Murder (1994) 40 copies
Smoke [1995 film] (1995) — Screenwriter — 39 copies
Translations (1997) 32 copies
Collected Novels Volume 1 (2004) 26 copies
Collected Novels Volume 2 (2005) 21 copies
White Spaces (1980) 16 copies
Blue in the Face [1995 film] (2003) — Director/Screenwriter — 13 copies
Ensayos completos (1984) 12 copies
Szenen aus "Smoke" (1996) 9 copies
Facing the Music (1980) 9 copies
Collected Novels Volume 3 (2008) 9 copies
Purgatory (2005) 7 copies
Juego del otro, El (2010) 5 copies
Le trame della scrittura (2005) 5 copies
Collected Screenplays (2010) 4 copies
Poesia Y Prosa 4 copies
Wall Writing (1976) 4 copies
Unearth (1974) 3 copies
Fragments from Cold (1977) 3 copies
It Don't Mean a Thing (2019) 3 copies
Glerborgin 1 copy
Itt és most 1 copy
Zimski dnevnik (2013) 1 copy
Sansit Bark : riwayah (2018) 1 copy
Worms 1 copy

Associated Works

Hunger (1890) — Introduction, some editions — 4,511 copies
The Time in Between (2009) — some editions — 1,907 copies
The Future Dictionary of America (2004) — Contributor — 627 copies
Strange Stories for Strange Kids (2001) — Contributor — 220 copies
Granta 87: Jubilee! The 25th Anniversary Issue (2004) — Contributor — 201 copies
Granta 117: Horror (2011) — Contributor — 174 copies
Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians (1972) — Translator, some editions — 165 copies
This Is My Best: Great Writers Share Their Favorite Work (2004) — Contributor — 160 copies
Granta 46: Crime (1994) — Contributor — 151 copies
Granta 58: Ambition (1997) — Contributor — 144 copies
Granta 71: Shrinks (2000) — Contributor — 136 copies
Granta 63: Beasts (1998) — Contributor — 132 copies
Granta 44: The Last Place on Earth (1993) — Contributor — 125 copies
Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny by Papa (2003) — Introduction, some editions — 122 copies
The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard (2012) — Introduction — 117 copies
Granta 125: After the War (2013) — Contributor — 82 copies
The Ecco Book of Christmas Stories (2005) — Contributor — 73 copies
After Yesterday's Crash: The Avant-Pop Anthology (1995) — Contributor — 66 copies
The Grim Reader: Writings on Death, Dying, and Living On (1997) — Contributor — 61 copies
Yours in Food, John Baldessari (2004) — Contributor — 40 copies
The Vintage Book of Classic Crime (1993) — Contributor — 34 copies
Antaeus No. 75/76, Autumn 1994 - The Final Issue (1994) — Contributor — 32 copies
La solitude du labyrinthe (1997) — some editions — 17 copies
The Paris Review 167 2003 Fall (2003) — Interview — 14 copies
Monkey Business: New Writing from Japan, Volume 03 (2013) — Contributor — 11 copies
Homenaje a Paul Auster (2007) — Contributor — 10 copies
Het derde Testament : Joodse verhalen (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 7 copies
Den kriminelle novelle (1999) — Author, some editions — 5 copies
Poetry Magazine Vol. 201 No. 5, February 2013 (2012) — Contributor — 4 copies
Arabs & Israelis : a dialogue (1975) — Translator, some editions — 3 copies
L'oeuvre de Paul Auster (1995) 2 copies
The Paris Review 96 1985 Summer (1985) — Contributor — 2 copies
Stooge Thirteen, Spring 1975 — Contributor — 1 copy

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Reviews

"Míster Bones es un perro de raza indefinida, pero de una inteligencia muy precisa. No habla inglés -quizá porque se lo impide la forma de sus fauces- pero tantos años escuchando el incesante torrente verbal de su amo han hecho que lo comprenda a la perfección, y que pueda pensar e interpretar el mundo con una sensibilidad muy canina y una sintaxis muy humana. Porque Míster Bones tiene siete años y ha vivido desde que era un cachorro con William Gurevitch, más conocido como Willy Christmas desde que Santa Claus le habló desde el televisor, provocando en él una auténtica experiencia mística. Willy es un vagabundo, un poeta errante, un excéntrico superviviente de las revoluciones de los sesenta. En un principio, se asoció con Míster Bones en busca de protección, porque la vida en las calles es muy dura, pero lo que podría haber sido una mera alianza de conveniencia se convirtió en algo mucho más intenso, un mutuo descubrimiento (Willy hasta llegó a crear una sinfonía de olores, una obra de arte canino para deleitar a Míster Bones), un amor sin condiciones. Juntos han recorrido América, han sobrevivido a duros inviernos en Brooklyn y han vuelto a salir a la carretera con la llegada del buen tiempo. Y ahora están en Baltimore, viviendo la que quizá sea su última aventura en común: desde hace días Willy presiente que está llegando al final del camino, y antes de dirigirse a ese otro mundo que él y Míster Bones llaman Tombuctú quiere encontrar a Bea Swanson, la profesora del instituto que le abrió las altas puertas de la poesía, para confiarle lo único que le importa en la vida, sus setenta y cuatro cuadernos de poemas y el leal, inteligente, notable Míster Bones...". (Descripción editorial).… (more)
 
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Perroteca__ | 67 other reviews | Apr 23, 2024 |
Reason read: This is part of the 1001 books to read before you die. It also was the April word event.
I generally don’t mind Paul Auster’s writing. This was okay but not wonderful. A story that involves themes of isolation, writers as characters,

The main character goes into depression and isolation, then becomes obsessed by a “fictional” actor from the silent movies.
 
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Kristelh | 78 other reviews | Apr 18, 2024 |
Tombuctú
Paul Auster
Publicado: 1999 | 129 páginas
Relato Drama

Míster Bones es un perro de raza indefinida, pero de una inteligencia muy precisa. No habla inglés —quizá porque se lo impide la forma de sus fauces—, pero tantos años escuchando el incesante torrente verbal de su amo han hecho que lo comprenda a la perfección, y que pueda pensar e interpretar el mundo con una sensibilidad muy canina y una sintaxis muy humana. Porque Míster Bones tiene siete años y ha vivido desde que era un cachorro con William Gurevitch, más conocido como Willy Christmas desde que Santa Claus le habló desde el televisor, provocando en él una auténtica experiencia mística. Willy es un vagabundo, un poeta errante, un excéntrico superviviente de las revoluciones de los sesenta. En un principio, se asoció con Míster Bones en busca de protección, porque la vida en las calles es muy dura, pero lo que podría haber sido una mera alianza de conveniencia se convirtió en algo mucho más intenso, un mutuo descubrimiento (Willy hasta llegó a crear una sinfonía de olores, una obra de arte canino para deleitar a Míster Bones), un amor sin condiciones. Juntos han recorrido América, han sobrevivido a duros inviernos en Brooklyn y han vuelto a salir a la carretera con la llegada del buen tiempo. Y ahora están en Baltimore, viviendo la que quizá sea su última aventura en común: desde hace días Willy presiente que está llegando al final del camino, y antes de dirigirse a ese otro mundo que él y Míster Bones llaman Tombuctú quiere encontrar a Bea Swanson, la profesora del instituto que le abrió las altas puertas de la poesía, para confiarle lo único que le importa en la vida, sus setenta y cuatro cuadernos de poemas y el leal, inteligente, notable Míster Bones...… (more)
 
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libreriarofer | 67 other reviews | Apr 9, 2024 |
Baumgartner, the latest book by Paul Auster is difficult to read as it is so turned inwards. The work of Auster seems to have developed from a expressionism and surrealistic boundless optimism to introspection, increasingly delving for identity. While previously the search for identity remained general, looking for a connection with Jewishness, often, like other Jewish writers by looking at Prague, Auster delves deeper in Baumgartner by describing a journey, looking for answers that are not found, in Ukraine, in a village where many people are named "Auster". This story seems to be the mirroring point where reality is mirrored into fiction, and fiction in some way is the counterpart of reality.

Baumgartner also seems to be a very mature novel, in the sense that the author feels there is no need to clarify or be clear. The story is as it stands and it is up to the reader to delve in for meaning and significance. Baumgartner is clearly a novel that needs to be read twice, partially if not whole. Like the writer, the reader needs to decide how deep they are willing to delve. The novel suggests depth that may turn out to be a lead to deeper understanding or a decoy, such as the title of the book Baumgartner is writing, nl "The Mystery of the Wheel".

While on the one hand, Baumgartner seems to be a book about aging, and how aging affects the mind, it is also about how the mind works, the mind of a writer.
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edwinbcn | 16 other reviews | Feb 25, 2024 |

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Rating
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Reviews
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ISBNs
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Languages
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Favorited
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