Paul Auster is one of the most interesting authors we have in contemporary fiction. I have read Leviathan and the groundbreaking New York Trilogy over the years. When I saw Oracle Night at the used bookstore recently, I decided to read and review it. Oracle Night is the story of novelist, Sidney...
I picked this book up for a goodreads group read—and, honestly, only because it was on the 1001 books list. And I am so glad I did. Originally published in 1890 in Norway, it doesn't feel dated or culturally "different" (to boring American me). It feels like it could be happening now, to the man t...
I bought "Man In The Dark" because I was transferring between flights in an airport in some non-English speaking country and I'd run out of things to read. I had no idea that Paul Auster is seen in America as a contemporary god of literature, who's writing, to quote Wikipedia, "blends absurdism, exi...
Die drei Geschichten schaffen eine perfekt abstruse fast französische Film-Noir-Stimmung, in der sich typische Rollen und Identiäten auflösen und sich alle Hauptprotagonisten mysteriös, obsessiv, verwirrend und völlig unlogisch verhalten. Soweit so gut. Die Kurzgeschichten sind in einer Trilogie auf...
I was planning a long, thoughtful, and very thorough review of this. I began a draft the very next morning after completing the audiobook (lying in bed listening to the last little bit and going into denial that it was suddenly over). But then I put it aside and let too much time pass. Gosh darn ...
I've been noticing an awful lot of books narrated by dogs lately--have been recommended a few and have politely demurred. I hate feeling emotionally manipulated and tend to avoid books that are intentional tearjerkers, which most animal stories are. Happily, this book, which chronicles the life and ...
La première partie 'Portrait d' un homme invisible' est touchante et intriguante, pouvant se relier à plusieurs personnes croisées ça et là, rappelant en certains points L'étranger de Camus, le tout rattaché à un univers familial particulier pouvant expliquer beaucoup de choses. La seconde, L'invent...
Als Fan von Paul Austers Fabulierkunst hat mir dieser Roman bisher am wenigsten gefallen. Dabei ist er sprachlich und erzählerisch wieder in gewohnt grossartiger Qualität, wenn auch die Geschichte etwas unwahrscheinlich weit hergeholt und schräg ist. Macht nix ich mag schräge Gschichtln schliesslich...
2/10 - I found this a little disappointing as it was advertised in the blurb as being "a ghost story without any ghosts", but it didn't read like that at all. I found it quite strange - there was a book within a book within a book (I was reading a book about a character writing a book about a myste...
It might very well grow into a four-star once I've digested it. Two-thirds through I was pretty much ready to write it off as something wanting to be a Vonnegut piece but without the sting. The story (stories) seemed to lack purpose and an old mans ramblings seemed like just that, an old mans rambli...
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