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Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, [3] son of Samuel Auster, a landlord who owned buildings with his brothers in Jersey City, [4] and Queenie, née Bogat. His middle-class parents were Jewish, of Austrian descent; the marriage was an unhappy one, and they divorced during Auster's senior year of high school, he moving with his mother and sister to an apartment at Weequahic, Newark.
In contrast to Mr. Blank, the amnesiac protagonist of Auster’s “Travels in the Scriptorium” (2006), Baumgartner proves fascinating and endearing for having the ability to examine his own ...
David Zimmer appears in Auster's earlier novel Moon Palace. The Book of Illusions revisits a number of plot elements seen in Auster's first major work, The New York Trilogy. These include: The protagonist driving himself into isolation; Extended focus on a character's (fictional) body of work; Writers as characters
The New York Trilogy is a series of novels by American writer Paul Auster.Originally published sequentially as City of Glass (1985), Ghosts (1986) and The Locked Room (1986), it has since been collected into a single volume.
Paul Auster, a prolific, prize-winning man of letters and filmmaker known for such inventive narratives and meta-narratives as “The New York Trilogy” and “4 3 2 1,” has died at age 77.
Paul Auster, the acclaimed novelist who also wrote and directed films, died at his home in New York City on April 30. He was 77. Auster’s novels centered around questions of identity, language ...
4 3 2 1 is a 2017 novel by Paul Auster published by Henry Holt and Co.It describes four alternate versions of the life of Archie Ferguson in the 1950s and 1960s, and explores how an individual's life and personality is shaped by chance and circumstance.
Paul Auster, the American postmodern writer behind 'Smoke,' has died at 77. The bestselling author was diagnosed with cancer in 2022.