Bøger af Paul Auster

A LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNERA BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane.With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight.Auster's probing account of this singular life tracks Crane as he rebounds from one perilous situation to the next: A controversial article written at twenty disrupts the course of the 1892 presidential campaign, a public battle with the New York police department over the false arrest of a prostitute effectively exiles him from the city, a star-crossed love affair with an unhappily married uptown girl tortures him, a common-law marriage to the proprietress of Jacksonville's most elegant bawdyhouse endures, a shipwreck results in his near drowning, he withstands enemy fire to send dispatches from the Spanish-American War, and then he relocates to England, where Joseph Conrad becomes his closest friend and Henry James weeps over his tragic, early death.In Burning Boy, Auster not only puts forth an immersive read about an unforgettable life but also, casting a dazzled eye on Crane's astonishing originality and productivity, provides uniquely knowing insight into Crane's creative processes to produce the rarest of reading experiences-the dramatic biography of a brilliant writer as only another literary master could tell it.

Paul Auster has earned international praise for the imaginative power of his many novels, including The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, Mr. Vertigo, and Timbuktu. He has also published a number of highly original non-fiction works: The Invention of Solitude, Hand to Mouth, and The Art of Hunger. In The Red Notebook, Auster again explores events from the real world large and small, tragic and comic-that reveal the unpredictable, shifting nature of human experience. A burnt onion pie, a wrong number, a young boy struck by lightning, a man falling off a roof, a scrap of paper discovered in a Paris hotel room-all these form the context for a singular kind of ars poetica, a literary manifesto without theory, cast in the irreducible forms of pure story telling.

A "compelling" (Los Angeles Times) tale of friendship, betrayal, estrangement, and the unpredictable intrusions of violence in the everyday - from the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel"Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin. . . ." So begins the story by Peter Aaron about his best friend, Benjamin Sachs. Sachs had a marriage Aaron envied, an intelligence he admired, a world he shared. And then suddenly, after a near-fatal fall that might or might not have been intentional, Sachs disappeared. Now Aaron must piece together the life that led to Sach's death. His sole aim is to tell the truth and preserve it, before those who are investigating the case invent an account of their own.

From the author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel - a spare, powerful, intensely visionary novel about the bare-bones conditions of survivalIn a distant and unsettling future, Anna Blume is on a mission in an unnamed city of chaos and disaster. Its destitute inhabitants scavenge garbage for food and shelter, no industry exists, and an elusive government provides nothing but corruption. Anna wades through the filth to find her long-lost brother, a one-time journalist who may or may not be alive.New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy) shows us a disturbing Hobbesian society in this dystopian, post-apocalyptic novel.

“On the eve of Christmas Eve...” Paul Auster writes, “Tyler Kobe Nichols collapsed onto the sidewalk with three knife wounds in the front of his torso and one in the back.”His death soon followed. With it, the twenty-one-year-old joined the ranks of young people killed by senseless violence in America. Tyler’s death warranted just two paragraphs in the New York Daily News. And yet with each death, a new story begins that is rarely if ever told; one that centers around the fallout from traumatic loss. This story, as Tyler’s mother Sherma Chambers keenly observes, is generational, with no clear end in sight.Long Live King Kobe began with a mistake. Photographer Spencer Ostrander had arrived at the funeral for Tyler believing he was a victim of gun violence, and hoping to include him in an ongoing project Ostrander had created to document the lives of gun victims. Instead, he met Sherma Chambers, and a week later a collaboration, which soon included Paul Auster, had begun--one in which a pair of strangers would join a family in their sorrow.Thanks to the generosity of the entire Nichols/Chambers family, Long Live King Kobe invites us to join them in their intimate grief in the weeks that followed Tyler’s death. The family’s response to his murder, including their creation of a foundation dedicated to counteracting street violence with love, is one that presents their tragedy as a means for our society to grow.Long Live King Kobe offers a privileged journey into the power of community for all who have felt outrage, confusion, sadness, and deep despair at the epidemic of violence in our country. It also provides reason to hope. The Long Live King Kobe Foundation, started by Sherma Chambers, will support nonviolence initiatives to keep youth safe. Proceeds from this book will benefit the foundation.

Net wanneer het leven van de 59-jarige Nathan Glass zich in een uiterst diep dal bevindt, komt hij zijn lang verloren neef Tom Wood tegen. Beide heren hebben de nodige mislukkingen te verduren gehad: het eerste huwelijk van Nathan is gestrand, hij kampt met longkanker en heeft amper contact meer met zijn dochter, terwijl Tom vaarwel heeft moeten zeggen tegen zijn academische carrière. Een derde lotgenoot vinden ze in ex-gevangene Harry Brightman, de eigenaar van de tweedehands boekwinkel in Brooklyn waar Tom werkt. De mannen besluiten samen het roer om te gooien en voorgoed af te rekenen met hun tegenslag. Brooklyn-dwaasheid is een uitbundig verhaal over de pieken en dalen van het menselijk leven.Paul Auster (1947) is een Amerikaanse auteur die gezien wordt als een van de beste schrijvers uit de Verenigde Staten. Zijn werken omvatten verschillende genres als romans, poëzie, autobiografische essays en filmscripts. Hij werd vooral bekend door de detectivereeks ‘The New York Trilogy’ (1987) dankzij de onconventionele verhaallijnen en de diepere thema’s die hij aansnijdt. Dit is typerend voor de werken van Paul Auster.

During the 20th Century, France was home to many of the world's greatest poets. This collection highlights some of the very best verse that came out of a country and century defined by war and liberation. Let Paul Auster guide you through some of the best poetry that 20th century France has to offer. "Indispensable . . . a book that everyone interested in modern poetry should have close to hand, a source of renewable delights and discoveries, a book that will long claim our attention . . . To my knowledge, no current anthology is as full and as deftly edited."-Peter Brooks, The New York Times Book Review "One of the freshest and most exciting books of poetry to appear in a long while . . . Paul Auster has provided the best possible point of entry into this century's most influential body of poetry."-Geoffrey O'Brien, The Village Voice

This is a personal collection of essays, prefaces and occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers. Ranging in subject from Walter Raleigh to Kafka; Hawthorne to high-wire artist Philippe Petit; conceptual artist Sophie Calle to his own typewriter; and The World Trade Center catastrophe to his beloved New York City itself, Auster displays his customary flair, wit and insight.

David Zimmer, professor i litteraturvitenskap, mister kone og to sønner i en flyulykke. Med ett er hele hans livsgrunnlag borte. Han tilbringer dagene i selskap med TV og whiskyflasker, nær ved å gå i oppløsning i total desperasjon. En kveld kommer han over en film av stumfilmskaperen Hector Mann, som forsvant sporløst en gang i slutten av 20-årene. Alle regner med at han er død og at det ikke finnes flere filmer etter ham. Hector Manns filmer redder Zimmer. Han går i gang med å skrive en bok om Mann. Etter en tid blir han kontaktet av en kvinne som gir seg ut for å være Manns kone. Hun sier at han fortsatt lever, og inviterer Zimmer til deres ranch i New Mexico. Stemmer dette, eller er det bare en ny fortelling av samme slag som Manns filmer? Hvordan skal Zimmer få brakt på det rene hva som er virkelig?

Nashe er i trettiårene, brannmann i Boston og far til en liten datter, da hans regelmessige liv brått forandrer karakter. Hans kone reiser fra ham, og en arv fra en far han aldri har kjent, gir ham en ny frihet. Nashe plasserer datteren hos sin søster, selger alt han eier, og kjøper seg bil. Etter et år på landeveien - og med bare noen få dollar igjen - møter han Jack Pozzi. Pozzi er pokerspiller, en genial kortkunstner etter egen mening, og Nashe satser sine siste penger på et opplagt spill mot to eksentriske lotterimillionærer.

Maanden na de dood van zijn vrouw en twee kinderen verschijnt er voor het eerst weer een glimlach op David's gezicht. Dit gebeurt wanneer David Zimmer een oude, stomme film op televisie ziet, die gemaakt is door de komiek Hector Mann. Voor het eerst tijdens het ongelofelijk zware rouwproces verschijnt er een klein lichtje aan het einde van de tunnel. Het bijzondere leven van Mann, die in 1929 plotseling verdween, wordt zijn nieuwe obsessie en hij brengt zelfs een boek uit over zijn werken. Tot zijn grote verbazing krijgt hij vervolgens een uitnodiging om Mann te bezoeken. Leeft Mann na al die jaren nog steeds? ‘Het boek der illusies’ is een ontroerende, tragikomische roman waar Zimmer de grip op de werkelijkheid krampachtig vast probeert te houden. Paul Auster (1947) is een Amerikaanse auteur die gezien wordt als een van de beste schrijvers uit de Verenigde Staten. Zijn werken omvatten verschillende genres, zoals romans, poëzie, autobiografische essays en filmscripts. Hij werd vooral bekend door de detectivereeks ‘The New York Trilogy’ (1987) dankzij de onconventionele verhaallijnen en de diepere thema’s die hij aansnijdt. Dit is typerend voor de werken van Paul Auster.

Toeval bestaat niet. Of toch wel? Paul Auster vertelt over de kleine, komische dingen uit zijn dagelijks leven, zoals een aangebrande taart, een platte band, of een verkeerd telefoonnummer. Deze tamelijk gangbare gebeurtenissen leiden tot onverklaarbare toevalligheden in het leven die hij op een wonderlijke manier met elkaar weet te verbinden. Hoe kan het dat Auster telkens dezelfde passagier in de auto heeft tijdens de vier keren dat hij een platte band kreeg? ‘Het rode notitieboekje’ brengt vier eerder uitgebrachte verhalen samen en laat zien dat alles en iedereen op curieuze wijze met elkaar verbonden is. Paul Auster (1947) is een Amerikaanse auteur die gezien wordt als een van de beste schrijvers uit de Verenigde Staten. Zijn werken omvatten verschillende genres als romans, poëzie, autobiografische essays en filmscripts. Hij werd vooral bekend door de detectivereeks ‘The New York Trilogy’ (1987) dankzij de onconventionele verhaallijnen en de diepere thema’s die hij aansnijdt. Dit is typerend voor de werken van Paul Auster.

Eén verkeerde gok kan van alles veranderen. Na de erfenis van een klein kapitaal besluit brandweerman Jim Nashe eropuit te trekken, op zoek naar een leven van vrijheid en avontuur. Tijdens zijn reizen ontmoet hij de excentrieke Pozzi, waarmee hij een plan bekokstooft om de rest van hun reis te kunnen blijven betalen. Alles hangt af van een enkele goed getrokken kaart bij een pokertoernooi met twee wereldvreemde miljonairs. In dit hedendaagse avontuur, dat zich afspeelt in alle uithoeken van Amerika, hangt veel af van het toeval en volgen we het pad van Jim Nashe’s neerval tot zijn uiteindelijke verlossing. Het boek is in 1993 verfilmd door regisseur Philip Haas.Paul Auster (1947) is een Amerikaans postmodern auteur en regisseur, die vooral bekend is om zijn complexe romans, waaronder enkele experimentele detectiveverhalen. Hij houdt zich vooral bezig met onderwerpen als de zoektocht naar de eigen identiteit en persoonlijke betekenis. Enkele bekende werken van hem zijn De New York-trilogie, Maanpaleis en De muziek van het toeval. Paul Auster is in meer dan 40 talen vertaald en heeft met zijn werk vele prestigieuze prijzen gewonnen.

A BOSTON GLOBE BEST BOOK OF 2021Booker Prize-shortlisted and New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster's comprehensive, landmark biography of the great American writer Stephen Crane.With Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster tells the extraordinary story of Stephen Crane, best known as the author of The Red Badge of Courage, who transformed American literature through an avalanche of original short stories, novellas, poems, journalism, and war reportage before his life was cut short by tuberculosis at age twenty-eight.Auster's probing account of this singular life tracks Crane as he rebounds from one perilous situation to the next: A controversial article written at twenty disrupts the course of the 1892 presidential campaign, a public battle with the New York police department over the false arrest of a prostitute effectively exiles him from the city, a star-crossed love affair with an unhappily married uptown girl tortures him, a common-law marriage to the proprietress of Jacksonville's most elegant bawdyhouse endures, a shipwreck results in his near drowning, he withstands enemy fire to send dispatches from the Spanish-American War, and then he relocates to England, where Joseph Conrad becomes his closest friend and Henry James weeps over his tragic, early death.In Burning Boy, Auster not only puts forth an immersive read about an unforgettable life but also, casting a dazzled eye on Crane's astonishing originality and productivity, provides uniquely knowing insight into Crane's creative processes to produce the rarest of reading experiences-the dramatic biography of a brilliant writer as only another literary master could tell it.

‘Schrijven begint in het lichaam, het is de muziek van het lichaam’, schrijft Paul Auster in zijn autobiografische boek ‘Winterlogboek’. Op 63-jarige leeftijd reflecteert hij op zijn leven en neemt je mee terug naar zijn jeugd. Terugkijkend op zijn herinneringen als zoon, jong volwassenene, vriend, echtgenoot, schrijver en dichter, vertelt hij openhartig over zijn leven. Wie heeft hij in zijn leven ontmoet? Van wie heeft hij afscheid moeten nemen? Hoe kijkt hij terug op zijn leven? ‘Winterlogboek’ geeft antwoord op deze vragen op poëtische en gedenkwaardige wijze. Paul Auster (1947) is een Amerikaanse auteur die gezien wordt als een van de beste schrijvers uit de Verenigde Staten. Zijn werken omvatten verschillende genres als romans, poëzie, autobiografische essays en filmscripts. Hij werd vooral bekend door de detectivereeks ‘The New York Trilogy’ (1987) dankzij de onconventionele verhaallijnen en de diepere thema’s die hij aansnijdt. Dit is typerend voor de werken van Paul Auster.

An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few objects around him are one-word, hand-written labels, and on the desk is a series of vaguely familiar black-and-white photographs and four piles of paper. Then a middle-aged woman called Anna enters and talks of pills and treatment, but also of love and promises.Who is this Mr Blank, and what is his fate? What does Anna represent from his past - and will he have enough time to ever make sense of the clues that arise?After the huge success of The Brooklyn Follies, his new novel sees Auster return to the metaphysical territory familiar from his enormously influential The New York Trilogy. A dark puzzle, and a game that implicates both reader and writer alike, Travels in the Scriptorium is a mind-altering exploration of language, responsibility and the passage of time. 'Travels in the Scriptorium returns to . . . the nihilistic gaiety of Beckett (in particular Krapp) or the sub-dermal violence of Pinter.' New Statesman

”Samtaler med fremmede” er en helt ny samling af tekster fra de seneste halvtreds år, som tegner et bredt og detaljeret billede af Paul Auster, hans tanker og refleksioner gennem tiden. De 44 tekster bevæger sig fra en kort filosofisk meditation, skrevet af den 20-årige forfatter, til politiske tekster, der berører emner som hjemløshed, 9/11, og sammenhængen mellem fodbold og krig. Indimellem disse tegnes portrætter af amerikanske kunstnere og forfattere fra forskellige perioder, blandt andre Nathaniel Hawthorne, Jim Jarmusch, Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Beckett og Sophie Calle. Udgivelsen er en storskrift-udgave til svagsynede i serien MAGNUMBØGER Lindhardt og Ringhof.

Nathan Glass has come to Brooklyn to die. Divorced, retired, estranged from his only daughter, the former life insurance salesman seeks only solitude and anonymity. Then Glass encounters his long-lost nephew, Tom Wood, who is working in a local bookstore. Through Tom and his charismatic boss, Harry, Nathan's world gradually broadens to include a new set of acquaintances, which leads him to a reckoning with his past.

Mr. Bones, the heroic dog of Paul Auster's astonishing book, is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant and troubled homeless man from Brooklyn. As Willy's body slowly expires, he sets off with Mr. Bones for Baltimore in search of his high-school English teacher and a new home for his companion. Mr. Bones is our witness during their journey, and out of his thoughts Paul Auster has spun one of the richest, most compelling tales in recent American fiction.

A brilliant, devastating tale about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us.

A Picador Paperback OriginalA new movie written and directed by Paul Auster, starring David Thewlis, Irene Jacob, Michael Imperioli, and Sophie Auster. From The New York Trilogy to The Book of Illusions and Travels in the Scriptorium, Paul Auster is one of America's most spectacularly inventive novelists. Smoke, Blue in the Face, and Lulu on the Bridge established him as an award-winning filmmaker. The Inner Life of Martin Frost brings together his talents as a novelist and filmmaker with a work that is tender, moving, and funny.Searching for solitude, the writer Martin Frost borrows a friend's country house. Waking up one morning, he is shocked to find a nearly naked young woman beside him in bed. She also has a key to the house and claims to be the owner's niece. Martin's initial annoyance at Claire's intrusion is rapidly forgotten as he falls passionately in love with her. Even when it is revealed that Claire is not who she claims to be, their idyllic passion continues--until she suddenly falls ill.The Inner Life of Martin Frost is based on an imaginary film that appears in his novel The Book of Illusions. Unlike the fictional Hector Spelling's "lost" 1946 black and white film of the same title, Auster's luminous celebration of the mysteries of love, art, and the imagination will be released in 2007.

An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores over the relics on the desk, examining the circumstances of his confinement and searching his own hazy mind for clues.Determining that he is locked in, the man--identified only as Mr. Blank--begins reading a manuscript he finds on the desk, the story of another prisoner, set in an unfamiliar, alternate world. As the day passes, various characters call on Mr. Blank in his cell, and each brings frustrating hints of his forgotten identity and his past.Both chilling and poignant, Travels in the Scriptorium is vintage Paul Auster: mysterious texts, fluid identities, a hidden past, and, somewhere, an obscure tormentor. And yet, as we discover during one day in the life of Mr. Blank, his world is not so different from our own.