Report from the Interior
From his baby's-eye view of the man in the moon to his childhood worship of the movie cowboy Buster Crabbe to the composition of his first poem at the age of nine to his dawning awareness of the injustices of American life, Report from the Interior charts Auster's moral, political and intellectual journey as he inches his way toward adulthood through the post-war fifties and into the turbulent 1960s. Auster evokes the sounds, smells, and tactile sensations that marked his early life-and the many images that came at him, including moving images (he adored cartoons, he was in love with films), until, at its unique climax, the book breaks away from prose into pure imagery: The final section of Report from the Interior recapitulates the first three parts, told in an album of pictures. At once a story of the times and the story of the emerging consciousness of a renowned literary artist, this four-part work answers the challenge of autobiography in ways rarely, if ever, seen before.
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8,95 €
Here and Now
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.
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11,50 €
Collected Prose - Auster
The celebrated author of "The New York Trilogy", "Moon Palace" and "The Book of Illusions" presents here a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces and occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers. Ranging in subject from Walter Raleigh to Kafka; Hawthorne to the high-wire artist Philippe Petit; conceptual artist Sophie Calle to Auster's own typewriter; The World Trade Center catastrophe to his beloved New York City itself, Auster displays all his customary flair, wit and insight.
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19,99 €
Itt és most
"Sokat töprengek a barátságon mostanában..." - így indul az a levelezés, melyben J. M. Coetzee, A barbárokra várva Nobel-díjas szerzője és Paul Auster, a New York Trilógia írója beszélgetnek, mint férfi a férfival.
A barátságról és a baseballról.
A kislányok és a regényhősök névadásának buktatóiról.
A mobiltelefon regénydramaturgiai és a sportnézés erkölcsi vonzatairól.
Az amerikai politika és az izraeli politika bosszantó vonásairól.
És persze a szerelemről és a fociról.
Meg a fociról és a szerelemről.
A két író 2008-ban találkozott először... A kezdetben távolságtartó levélváltás során viszonyuk igazi barátsággá mélyült. Olyan őket olvasni, mintha az ember kihallgatna egy izgalmas értelmiségi párbeszédet, amelyben a felek egymás álláspontját tiszteletben tartva, mégis szenvedélyesen vitáznak az élet és a művészet kérdéseiről...
Meg a fociról és a szerelemről.
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13,46 €
Report from the Interior
In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . .
Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within, through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world.
From his baby's-eye view of the man in the moon to his childhood worship of the movie cowboy Buster Crabbe to the composition of his first poem at the age of nine to his dawning awareness of the injustices of American life, Report from the Interior charts Auster's moral, political and intellectual journey as he inches his way toward adulthood through the post-war fifties and into the turbulent 1960s.
Auster evokes the sounds, smells, and tactile sensations that marked his early life-and the many images that came at him, including moving images (he adored cartoons, he was in love with films), until, at its unique climax, the book breaks away from prose into pure imagery: The final section of Report from the Interior recapitulates the first three parts, told in an album of pictures.
At once a story of the times and the story of the emerging consciousness of a renowned literary artist, this four-part work answers the challenge of autobiography in ways rarely, if ever, seen before.
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18,95 €
Here and Now
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.
Vypredané
25,99 €
Here and Now
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.
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13,99 €
Winter Journal
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.
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8,99 €
Zimný denník
Americký spisovateľ Paul Auster vo svojej najnovšej knižke rekapituluje svoj život. Výsledkom však nie sú nudné memoáre, ale svieže dielko, v ktorom cítiť rozkoš z rozprávania. Auster v tejto spomienkovej mozaike spája veci každodenné i zlomové, bizarné i banálne, smiešne i vážne. Úplne otvorene píše o svojich prvých erotických zážitkoch, o neuveriteľných historkách z pobytu v Paríži, o tvorivej kríze, o zdravotných a existenčných problémoch či o zložitých vzťahoch k svojim blízkym. Zimný denník nie je len kniha o jednom konkrétnom živote, o detstve, dospievaní, zrelosti a starnutí. Je to najmä kniha o veciach, ktoré v sebe všetci nosíme a ktoré nás sprevádzajú až do smrti.
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9,90 €
Oracle Night
Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and bewildering events that threaten to destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality. Paul Auster's mesmerizing eleventh novel reads like an old-fashioned ghost story. But there are no ghosts in this book - only flesh-and-blood human beings, wandering through the haunted realms of everyday life. "Oracle Night" is a narrative tour de force that confirms Auster's reputation as one of the boldest, most original writers at work in America today.
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8,99 €
New York trilógia
Paul Auster (1947) amerikai regényíró, esszéista, költő és műfordító a 80-as évek közepén vált szélesebb körben ismertté kísérleti detektívregény-sorozatával, a "New York trilógiá"-val. Ennek első darabja, az "Üvegváros" egy Quinn nevű, álnéven publikáló író története, akit felbérelnek, hogy kövesse Stillmant, a börtönből szabaduló filozófust, hátha az meg akarja ölni a fiát. Ahogy Quinn elmélyed az ügyben, egy olyan labirintusba téved, amelyben a szereplők kiléte egyre zavarosabb lesz, s már-már szétválaszthatatlan, mi tény és mi fikció. A "Kísértetek" című második regény a detektívtörténet lecsupaszított váza. Az ügy eléggé egyszerűnek látszik. White kívánsága, hogy szemmel tartson egy Black nevezetű egyént, amíg csak szükségesnek mutatkozik. Míg Brownnak dolgozott, Blue elég sok hasonló jellegű munkát végzett, és úgy tűnik, ez az ügy sem lesz másmilyen, talán még könnyebb is az átlagnál - így kezdődik a történet, amelyben végül csak arra a kérdésre kapunk választ, hogy ki kicsoda és miben sántikál, arra azonban nem, hogy mit is jelent ez az egész. "Sötéten, titokzatosan érik a múltban a jelen, jelenben a jövő" - írja Auster. "Ilyen a világ: vakon tapogatózunk, lépésben, szavanként botorkálunk előre. Keserves a tudás, s gyakorta bizony nagy árat kell fizetnünk érte." A bezárt szoba főszereplőjének egyes szám első személyű története a hasonmás-téma variációja. A narrátor egy eltűnt és halottnak hitt író, Fanshawe kéziratának birtokába jut, amelynek publikálása valóságos irodalmi szenzáció. Oly mértékben azonosul ezzel az íróval, hogy még a feleségét is elveszi, holott tudja -egyedül ő tudja-, hogy Fanshawe valójában él. Ez a nyomozás, melynek során irodalmi alakok kopírozódnak egymásra, az önazonosság-keresés parabolájaként olvasható, s mint ilyen, nem csak a trilógiát zárja le, hanem továbbmutat a későbbi -magyarul ugyancsak egytől egyig megjelent- Auster-regények felé.
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13,46 €
The Invention of Solitude
'One day there is life ...And then, suddenly, it happens there is death.' So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood, The Invention of Solitude. The first section, 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', reveals Auster's memories and feelings after the death of his father. In 'The Book of Memory' the perspective shifts to Auster's role as a father. The narrator, 'A.', contemplates his separation from his son, his dying grandfather and the solitary nature of writing and story-telling. 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.
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11,95 €
Invention of Solitude
'One day there is life...and then, suddenly, it happens there is death.' So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. The first section, 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', reveals Auster's memories and feelings after the death of his father. In 'The Book of Memory' the perspective shifts to Auster's role as a father. The narrator, 'A', contemplates his separation from his son, his dying grandfather and the solitary nature of writing and story-telling.
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9,99 €
NY Trilogy
The New York Trilogy" is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it means to be human. Auster's book is modern fiction at its finest: bold, arresting and unputdownable.
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10,99 €
Book of Illusions
The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster. A professor whose entire family has died in a plane crash, leaving him so ravaged by grief that he becomes like a zombie stumbling through a living death; a silent movie star of the T...
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7,99 €
Oracle Night
Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and bewildering events that threaten to destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality.
If The New York Trilogy was Paul Auster's detective story, his mesmerizing eleventh novel reads like an old-fashioned ghost story. But there are no ghosts in this book - only flesh-and-blood human beings, wandering through the haunted realms of everyday life. Oracle Night is a narrative tour de force that confirms Auster's reputation as one of the boldest, most original writers at work in America today.
