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	Guardian Unlimited Books \| Authors \| Auster, Paul
		Auster's career has ranged from family memoir (The Invention of Solitude) to speculative dystopia (In The Country of Last Things), picaresque magical realism (Mr Vertigo), investigations of identity (The New York Trilogy established him as the only author one could compare to Samuel Beckett) and animal fable (Timbuktu).
		Auster is developing a movie glamour side to balance his high-art intellectualism.
		The Music of Chance was directed by Philip Haas in 1993, starring James Spader (Auster appears as a driver), and caught the understated, dreamlike atmosphere of the novel.
	books.guardian.co.uk /authors/author/0,5917,-13,00.html (400 words)

	Paul Auster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Paul Benjamin Auster (born February 3, 1947, Newark, New Jersey) is a Brooklyn-based author.
		Paul Auster was born to Jewish middle class parents Samuel and Queenie Auster.
		Previously, Auster was married to the acclaimed writer Lydia Davis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Paul_Auster (741 words)

	The Modern Word - Paul Auster's "Oracle Night"
		Auster’s novels hinge on what he once called “the music of chance,” and could perhaps best be described as aleatoric (in its musical sense of the sounds being indeterminate or left to chance).
		Although Auster’s stories can be maddening to read at times, and certainly frustrating in their lack of resolution, they are never less than faithful to our experience of the world, and are as “believable” as our struggle to bring meaning to our surroundings.
		Paul Auster is a novelist of our time, providing a murky window onto the perplexing world that we inhabit.
	www.themodernword.com /reviews/auster_oracle.html (1399 words)

	Paul Auster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Auster was born on February 3, 1947, in Newark, NJ.
		Auster is called "postmodern" by some critics, but they all seem to agree that his main themes are loss of self, the role of chance, and the unconventional employment of genre conventions.
		Auster is not famous enough to be in the standard encyclopedia, but he is likely to be in specialized encyclopedias about figures in contemporary literature.
	ils.unc.edu /~gards/pathfinder.html (1829 words)

	Supposing a Space: The Detecting Subject in Paul Auster's City of Glass
		Auster's version of the "Wakefield" story suggests, then, that in the postmodern space of the city, the subject risks more than being temporarily alienated from his or her home, a place which remains, ideological speaking, permanent even in the modernist urban environment.
		Auster evokes this spatial separation when, in a highly metafictional moment, he takes Quinn to the domicile of none other than Paul Auster, a writer no less -- we never do see the detective -- who not coincidentally lives with a wife and son, much as Quinn once did, in a comfortable apartment.
		Auster's use of the word "bourgeois" places the eleventh-floor apartment in direct contrast with the space of the street where Quinn will eventually lose both his home and his belief in the existence of such a place.
	reconstruction.eserver.org /023/swope.htm (9285 words)

	Amazon.ca: Leviathan: Books: Paul Auster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Finally, Peter (and Auster) appropriates the title of Ben's abandoned novel, a title that evokes the biblical sea monster and, thanks to Hobbes, the state, implying that the novel is itself a monster genre that merges diverse humans, their nightmares and passions.
		Auster's inventive plot, reminiscent at times of works by Paul Theroux, con tains bizarre coincidences which affirm that "everything is connected to everything else" as well as disturbing ambiguities that proclaim the elusiveness of truth.
		Paul Auster has to be one of the cleverest writers around, and one of the most rewarding.
	www.amazon.ca /Leviathan-Paul-Auster/dp/0140178139 (1375 words)

	Reflections On the Work of Paul Auster
		Paul Auster is a writer, who like Beckett is obsessed with identity and the way it is constructed out of and through the medium of stories, words, or even the thinnest of airs.
		Auster is also reminiscent of WG Sebald and Milan Kundera, for like them, he is unafraid of tackling the big themes: fate, the nature of being, the search for happiness.
		Auster almost always writes in the first person and it is his ability to inhabit his characters body and soul, which gives his work its vivacity.
	www.calitreview.com /Essays/paul_auster_5007.htm (1754 words)

	I Thought My Father Was God edited by Paul Auster - R A I N T A X I o n l i n e
		As great as it would be to hear the sepulchral resonance of Paul Auster's voice reading your very own words over the radio, part of the book's magic is its insistence that the reader imagine the voice of the story herself, or that she even occasionally fashion her own voice to it.
		We know Paul Auster writes "literature," that he is a scholar and advocate of often under-represented, always challenging literary works and writers.
		As a fiction writer, for which he is best known, Auster's novels frequently defy the boundaries of genre, with stylized sentences that come from a sensitive, poetic imagination tuned to the round nuances of thought and inquiry more than speech.
	www.raintaxi.com /online/2001winter/auster.shtml (1750 words)

	Amazon.fr : Collected Poems: Livres en anglais: Paul Auster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		To add heft to the slim book, a number of Auster's translations from the French are included, mostly of the surrealist communist poets of a previous era (Breton, Tzara, Eluard) who attained a new popularity when the events of May '68 made them, literally, poster boys for the New Left in Paris.
		Auster published six collections between 1974 and 1980, and selections from each, as well as some of his translations of the French poets who have so deeply influenced him, including Paul Eluard, Robert Desnos, and Jacques Dupin, are gathered here to form a remarkably meditative volume.
		Auster's exquisitely balanced poems are theorems postulating the nature of being, equations that seek to define the relationship between consciousness and matter, language and experience.
	www.amazon.fr /Collected-Poems-Paul-Auster/dp/1585674044 (515 words)

	Paul Auster's Urban Nothingness
		Auster shows that we the reader inject each book with our understanding and experiences, meaning that ultimately, of all the authors, we, with our 'springboard of imagination', are the most prominent.
		Auster believes no one truly knows himself, and each protagonist uses the identity of others to get closer to finding resolution, as Fanshawe finally does in 'The Locked Room.' Yet ultimately, the nature of the trilogy means that this is merely one interpretation: "It's not a mathematical equation to solve.
		Auster, Paul, 'The Invention of Solitude', (Faber and Faber, 1998)
	www.bluecricket.com /auster/articles/dawson.html (4140 words)

	Salon People \| Paul Auster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In "Timbuktu," Paul Auster's new novel, the setting moves from Brooklyn, where I used to live, to northern Virginia, where I used to live.
		In an Auster novel, characters meet characters named Paul Auster, detectives spy on writers who are already spying back and chance encounters govern the universe.
		Auster is relaxed and salt of the earth; he's people.
	www.salon.com /people/lunch/1999/07/23/auster (850 words)

	¡Esto es Brooklyn!
		Paul Auster llegó a media tarde a ayer a Oviedo, ciudad donde recógerá el viernes el premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras.
		Paul Auster no va a ganar el premio Nobel de Literatura este año, pero si lo hiciera, alguien (al margen de él mismo) podría ganar mucho dinero.
		Paul Auster vuelve a tomar contacto con la novela 'Hunger' (Sult, en su original noruego), del autor escandinavo Knut Hamsun (Lom, Noruega, 1859), premio Nobel en 1920.
	www.paulauster.blogspot.com (8831 words)

	Amazon.com: Paul Auster's City of Glass: Books: Paul Auster,David Mazzucchelli,Paul Karasik,Bob Callahan,Art Spiegelman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Auster's acclaimed novel City of Glass, a dreamlike meditation on language and fiction in the form of a detective novel, has been translated into comics form to stunning effect.
		And while Karasik's faithful adaptation of Auster's crisp prose partially obscures its author's sly allusions to the act of writing itself, Mazzuchelli's fl-and-white illustrations capture and expand on Auster's precise documentation of place, psychological development and pedagogical improvisation with unusual style, simplicity and graphic facility.
		I tend to doubt that Paul Auster's brand of existential musings will appeal to all tastes and I'm sure some will simply find the idea of reading a comic book to be beyond the pale.
	www.amazon.com /Paul-Austers-City-Glass-Auster/dp/038077108X (1453 words)

	Amazon.com: The Invention of Solitude: A Memoir: Books: Paul Auster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Auster remembers his father as an elusive figure in his life, emotionally detached and disconnected from family and life itself ("he had managed to keep himself at a distance from life").
		Auster is conscious of how little knowledge he actually has of his father's early childhood years, how unenlightened he is with regard to his father's inner life, how few clues he has to his father's character and how little understanding of the underlying reasons for his father's immunity from the world at large.
		Paul Auster's The Invention of Solitude, split as it is between a half that could be great fiction and a half that could be pure philosophy (or, if you'd like, pure rambling), is unlike anything I've ever read.
	www.amazon.com /Invention-Solitude-Memoir-Paul-Auster/dp/0140106286 (2212 words)

	Seattle Arts & Lectures - Paul Auster
		Auster mines the themes of shifting identity, arbitrary influence, and elusive truth.
		Auster assumed the role of starving artist, scraping out a living as a census taker, translator, and merchant seaman.
		She and Paul Auster have a teenage daughter and live in Brooklyn.
	www.lectures.org /auster.html (783 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| By genre \| Paul Auster: Abstract expressionist
		Paul Auster is 57, though he looks maybe a decade younger, and only his niggling smoker's cough and occasionally rasping voice betray any sign that age is impinging on his body in any way.
		Portraits of the extended Auster family adorn a nearby desk, but, at the time of my visit, his wife, Siri Hustved, herself an accomplished novelist, was absent, tending to her father, who had fallen ill. Their teenage daughter, Sophie, is out of town too, on a skiing trip.
		Auster has been carrying Flitcroft around in his head since 1990, when the German film director, Wim Wenders, called him up out of the blue and suggested they should collaborate on a film that used Hammett's version as a jumping-off point.
	books.guardian.co.uk /departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,1142856,00.html (3071 words)

	Paul Auster
		I include Paul Auster primarily for his mind trip of a detective novel, The New York Trilogy.
		It tells the story of a young woman in search of her missing brother in a post-apocalyptic nightmare of a city, where the citizens arrange suicides or assassinations to escape the hell their life has become.
		Paul Auster has also ventured into the world of film.
	www.kevincmurphy.com /auster.html (211 words)

	Amazon.fr : Oracle Night: Livres en anglais: Paul Auster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Auster uses footnotes to provide interesting backstory and develops Sidney's insecurities regarding love and fidelity, but when Sidney hits a patchy spot and writes Bowen into a corner, he (and Auster) shrugs and drops the story.
		So begins Auster's artful, ingenious 12th novel, which is both a darkly suspenseful domestic drama and a moving meditation on chance and loss.
		Paul Auster skilfully mingles the realms of everyday life with the imaginary world the Sidney is trying to create in the blue notebook.
	www.amazon.fr /Oracle-Night-Paul-Auster/dp/0312423667 (1412 words)

	LitKicks: Paul Auster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In fact, Paul Auster turns up at least once in most Auster novels, usually popping his head and looking slightly out of place in the middle of his text, like a human being who pops up on the Muppet Show.
		The marriage apparently ended in such a way as to devastate Auster nearly beyond repair, and to this date many of the main characters in his novels are adult males living in catatonic states after the deaths of their wives and children).
		Auster has written many books, including "Moon Palace" (identity dislocation in an olden-day New York setting, involving a chinese restaurant and a cubist painter), "Leviathan" (identity dislocation with a left-wing/anarchist political theme), "The Music of Chance" (identity dislocation at a poker tournament) and "Timbuktu" (something about a dog).
	www.litkicks.com /BeatPages/page.jsp?what=PaulAuster&who=brooklyn (955 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Paul Auster - Books: Meet the Writers
		Paul Auster's unique novels are often like Chinese boxes, continually opening further to reveal new layers.
		This postmodernist detective series of novels is Auster's seminal work, combining the traditional noir style with shadowy, existentialist plotlines such as that of Ghosts, in which a detective finds that the man he is assigned to watch is also a detective, watching someone else...
		Auster's first book, written in the wake of his father's death, describes his attempts to piece together his father's past.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?z=y&cid=716832 (327 words)

	Powell's Books - The Brooklyn Follies: A Novel by Paul Auster
		As Nathan recovers his soul through immersion in their lives, Auster meditates on the theme of sanctuary in American literature, from Hawthorne to Poe to Thoreau, infusing the novel's picaresque with touches of romanticism, Southern gothic and utopian yearning.
		Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Oracle Night, The Book of Illusions, and Timbuktu.
		Auster's easy-to-read "The Brooklyn Follies" ties family crisis together with morality, politics, sex and love based on the follies of the human mind.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=1-0805077146-1 (549 words)

	AllRefer.com - Paul Auster (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Paul Auster[O´stur] Pronunciation Key, 1947–;, American writer, b.
		A compelling storyteller, Auster became well known for the short novels of The New York Trilogy : City of Glass (1985), Ghosts (1986), and The Locked Room (1986) : tautly surreal variations on the urban detective story.
		Auster is also an essayist, translator, screenwriter, and memoirist.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/Auster.html (237 words)

	Penguin Reading Guides \| Mr. Vertigo \| Paul Auster
		Auster himself looks to "the anonymous men and women who invented the fairy tales we still tell each other today" as an unending source of inspiration.
		The grandson of Jewish immigrants, Paul Auster was born in Newark in 1947, and grew up in South Orange and the New Jersey suburbs.
		Auster reflects on his own work and traces the compulsion to make literature (or art) through essays on Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Paul Celan, Laura Riding, Knut Hamsun, John Ashbery, and other seminal figures of the twentieth century.
	us.penguingroup.com /static/rguides/us/mr_vertigo.html (3087 words)

	Auster,Paul Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
		Auster's signature work, "The New York Trilogy" ("City of Glass, Ghosts," and "The Locked Room") consists of three interlocking tales--haunting and mysterious--that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.
		Paul Auster, the writer, and Sam Messer, the painter, join forces to introduce the typewriter on which Auster has written since 1974--a 40-year-old Olympia portable.
		Paul Auster's noirish trilogy emphasizes the fragility and mysteriousness of identity.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Auster,Paul (1098 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Brooklyn Follies: Books: Paul Auster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Auster don't exposes unknown human problems, but he applies these to specimens of a modern society.
		However it seems Paul Auster wants to show the better facet of human beings confronted with the reality of a hard life.
		Auster seems to be to be treading water in this rather jumbled, disjointed effort, which to me offers only the occasional faintest of glimmers of his usual brilliance.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Brooklyn-Follies-Paul-Auster/dp/0571224970 (1230 words)

	Bluejake: Paul Auster
		This struck me as odd, because although Paul Auster and I lived in the same neighborhood for the 18 years I was growing up, I had never seen him on the street before.
		Paul Auster was sitting at the front table in the restaurant on the first floor of our building.
		Auster's novels would argue for the latter proposition, but if I see him having coffee in the atrium at 590 Madison Avenue, I'm going to be pretty suspicious.
	www.bluejake.com /archives/2003/06/07/paul_auster.php (535 words)

	Paul Auster. Biography and complete works
		American novelist, essayist, translator, and poet whose complex mystery novels are often concerned with the search for identity and personal meaning.
		Auster earned his B.A. and M.A. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he discovered French poets and started his writing career as a poet, translator, and essayist.
		After graduating from Columbia University (M.A., 1970), Auster moved to France, where he began translating the works of French writers and publishing his own work in American journals.
	www.booksfactory.com /writers/auster.htm (453 words)

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