Paul Auster

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Paul Auster is an American writer born the February 3rd 1947 with Newark, New Jersey, with the the United States. Part of its work evokes the town of New York. Initially translator of French poets, it wrote poetries before turning to the novel. He also worked for the cinema. He resides now at Brooklyn.

Biography

His/her parents, from Jewish confession, were born with the the United States but are originating in Central Europe. Very early in contact with the books via the library of an uncle translator, it starts to write at the 12 years age, little before discovering the Base-ball which one will find in many his novels. Of 1965 with 1967, it is student with Columbia University (literatures Frenchwoman, Italian and English). It starts to translate French authors (Dupin, Of Bouchet) and discovers Paris. It goes back there in 1967 after having escaped with the war of the Vietnam, wants to make cinema, misses the entrance examination by IDHEC. He writes scenarios for silent films which will not be born but that one will find, later, in the Book of the illusions .

Then begin ten years of galère. He writes articles for reviews, begins the first versions of the Voyage of Anna Blume and of Moon Palace , works on a tanker, returns in France for a three years stay (1971 - 1974) where he saw his translations (Mallarmé, Sartre, Simenon), and written poems and plays in an act.

In 1979, whereas it has just divorced and tried in vain to make publish a detective novel under the pseudonym of Paul Benjamin ( Fausse ball ), the death of his/her father brings a small heritage to him which gives it to flood and which inspires to him the Invention of loneliness . the Art of the hunger is published in 1982. Its collection in prose, white Spaces , is published in 1985 follow-up soon Effigies and Murales 1987, Fragments of the cold and In the storm , 1988, Disparitions , 1993. Paul Auster finally starts to be recognized like a major writer. Of 1986 (left Quoted of glass ) with 1994 ( Mr. Vertigo ), it publishes major novels like Moon Palace and Léviathan . It returns then to the cinema, by adapting with the realizer Wayne Wang his news Christmas d' Auggie Wren . Smoke and Brooklyn Boogie leaves in room in 1995. Paul Auster will carry out itself Lulu one the Bridge (1997) which will be badly accommodated by criticism.

It returns to the novel with Tombouctou (1999), the Book of the illusions (2002), the Night of oracle (2004) and Brooklyn Follies (2005).

Married then separated from the writer Lydia Davis, it was remarié in 1981 with another novelist, Siri Hustvedt. It also has two children artists, the photographer Daniel Auster and the singer Sophie Auster.

Its work

The work of Paul Auster is located in the postmodern movement.

He is par excellence the writer of the chance and the contingency. He tracks with the daily newspaper the junctions resulting from events apparently pain-killers. It is what tell the Music of the chance , and especially Léviathan in an exceptional central scene. Its very stripped style seemingly, worked with the wire of its poetic works, hiding place a narrative architecture complexes, made exaggerated but always relevant digressions, stories in the history and of trompe-l'oeil ( Christmas d' Auggie Wren ). It describes also the loss, the dispossession, the report/ratio with the money, the wandering (in Moon Palace , the main character names Marco Stanley Fogg). He also wonders about the identity, in particular in the New Yorkean Trilogie where one of the characters (who is not the narrator) bears his name, in Léviathan , whose narrator has his initial (Peter Aaron) and meets a named woman Iris (anagram of the first name of its own Siri wife), or in the Night of the oracle , in which a character bears the name of Trause (anagram of Auster).

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