El libro de las ilusiones
Meses después del accidente en el que murieron su mujer y su hijo, David Zimmer, escritor y profesor en Vermont, escribe un libro sobre la única persona que ha conseguido devolverle la sonrisa, el actor de cine mudo Hector Mann, desaparecido décadas atrás.En la décima novela de Paul Auster, la...
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Meses después del accidente en el que murieron su mujer y su hijo, David Zimmer, escritor y profesor en Vermont, escribe un libro sobre la única persona que ha conseguido devolverle la sonrisa, el actor de cine mudo Hector Mann, desaparecido décadas atrás.En la décima novela de Paul Auster, la narración de la vida de Hector Mann contada por Zimmer se mezcla con lo que le sucede al profesor y con la filmografía del actor, configurando potentes historias entrecruzadas que difuminan los límites entre la ficción y la realidad.
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Format: Kindle Edition
ISBN:
9788432209871
ASIN: B0079JY1CS
Publish date: 2012-02-20
Publisher: Booket
Pages no: 344
Edition language: Spanish
I've never been fond of pompous writing, the kind that checks its look in the mirror of acclaim and piles on the self-satisfied smirking smugness that makes me want to torch all the MFA schools I can reach. http://tinyurl.com/lyb8649 My review, which I've moved to my blog, says that and more. Ap...
I seriously hated this book nearly the entire way through - I think I finished it in a stubborn desire to prove to myself that I wouldn't like it. The long expositions of other plot lines - from films for example - was so clunky & exhausting, I thought.
I am still trying to find the right words to describe this work of art. Or, I guess I just did. Absolutely amazing. There couldn't be any other way to turn this book into a better romance than it is. The level of mistery, despair, anguish, belonging, doubt, is carefuly but freely placed over the cha...
After having lost his wife and children in a plane crash, writer and teacher David Zimmer is on a path of self-destruction, drinking, behaving badly around people, rejecting any and all understanding and sympathy. But seeing a bit of silent film comedy on TV, he takes up the task of examining and wr...
David Zimmer loses his wife and sons in a plane crash and his life begins to spin out of control. Then one night he watches a silent screen comedian and, for the first time in months, he laughs. His life becomes his search for information about the work of this comedian, an obscure and mysterious ma...
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