Paul Auster

Jim Nashe er i trediverne, brandmand fra Boston, ansvarlig far og beskytter af andres liv. Da han arver en sum penge, beslutter han sig for at leve ‘det frie liv’. Gennem et par år kører Nashe igennem USA, ‘slingrer blindt fra det ene nulpunkt til det næste’, mens han venter på at pengene skal slippe op. Så møder han Jack Pozzi, også kaldet Jackpot, en omrejsende hasardspiller med en vedvarende vrede, som han end ikke forsøger at beherske. Med Nashes sidste penge deltager han og Pozzi i et pokerspil med de excentriske millionærer Flower og Stone, og satser ‘alt på et enkelt kort vendt i blinde...’ Den amerikanske forfatter Paul Auster er født i 1947 i New Jersey og bor nu i Brooklyn med sin familie. Paul Auster debuterede som prosaist med erindringsbogen Opfindelsen af ensomhed i 1982 (dansk udgave 1990) og har skrevet den berømte New York Trilogi og en lang række andre internationalt anerkendte romaner, der alle er oversatte til dansk. Paul Austers omfattende forfatterskab består derudover af lyrik, essays og filmmanuskripter. Efter kultfilmene Smoke og Blue in the Face (1995), hvor han var medinstruktør, har han senest skrevet og instrueret filmene Lulu on the Bridge (1998) og The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007). Paul Auster modtog i 2006 den store spanske pris Prince of Asturias Award.

Talking to Strangers is a freshly curated collection of prose, spanning fifty years of work and including famous as well as never-before-published early writings, from Man Booker Prize-finalist Paul Auster. Beginning with a short philosophical meditation written when he was twenty and concluding with nine political pieces that take on such issues as homelessness, 9/11, and the link between soccer and war, the 44 pieces gathered in this volume offer a wide-ranging view of celebrated novelist Paul Auster's thoughts on a multitude of classic and contemporary writers, the high-wire exploits of Philippe Petit, how to improve life in New York City (in collaboration with visual artist Sophie Calle), and the long road he has traveled with his beloved manual typewriter. While writing for the New York Review of Books and other publications in the mid-1970s, young poet Auster gained recognition as an astute literary critic with essays on Laura Riding, John Ashbery, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, and others. By the late seventies and early eighties, as the poet was transforming himself into a novelist, he maintained an active double life by continuing his work as a translator and editing the groundbreaking anthology, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry. His prefaces to some of these books are included in Talking to Strangers, among them a heart-wrenching account of St phane Mallarm 's response to the death of his eight-year-old son, Anatole. Auster pushed on with explorations into the work of American artists spanning various periods and disciplines: the notebooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the films of Jim Jarmusch, the writings of painter-collagist-illustrator Joe Brainard, and the three-hit shutout thrown by journeyman right-hander Terry Leach of the Mets. Also included here are several rediscovered works that were originally delivered in public: a 1982 lecture on Edgar Allan Poe, a 1999 blast against New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and one of the funniest introductions a poetry reading ever heard in the state of New Jersey. A collection of soaring intelligence and deepest humanity, Talking to Strangers is an essential book by "the most distinguished American writer of his] generation . . . indeed its only author . . . with any claim to greatness." (The Spectator)

The figure of the young American poet living in Paris is familiar from Paul Auster's celebrated novels; here that character is realised in Auster's own stunningly accomplished verse. His penetrating and charged poetry resembles little else in recent American literature. This collection of his poems, translations, and composition notes from early in his career furnish yet further evidence of his literary mastery. Taut, densely lyrical and everywhere informed by a powerful and subtle music, this selection begins with the compact verse fragments of Spokes (written when Auster was in his early twenties) and Unearth, continues on through the more ample meditations of Wall Writing, Disappearances, Effigies, Fragments From the Cold, Facing the Music, and White Spaces, then moves further back in time to include Auster's revealing translations of many of the French poets who influenced his own writing - including Paul Eluard, André Breton, Tristan Tzara, Philippe Soupault, Robert Desnos and René Char - as well as the provocative and previously unpublished 'Notes From A Composition Book' (1967). An introduction by Norman Finkelstein connects biographical elements to a consideration of the work, and takes in Auster's early literary and philosophical influences. For those interested in Paul Auster's novels - the now-classic New York Trilogy or The Brooklyn Follies - this book is an invaluable opportunity to witness his early development. Powerful, sometimes haunting, cool, precise and limpid, this view from the past to the present will appeal to those unfamiliar with this aspect of Auster's work, as well as those already acquainted with his poetry. Readers will agree that Auster's grasp on language and the world around him is not only questioning, but mysterious and very human, perceptive, and deeply compelling

Moon Palace er historien om en ung mann på oppdagerferd i verden, på jakt etter sin identitet. Det er også en beretning om tapte fedre og sønner og om tilfeldighetenes spill. En underholdene, fascinerende og original bok - en utrolig spennende leseopplevelse. I en leilighet på Manhattan, med utsikt mot en bakgate og neonskiltet til kinarestauranten Moon Palace, bor Marco Stanley Foss. Han er foreldreløs, pengeløs og venneløs. Onkelen, som han vokste opp hos, er død. I stedet for å finne seg en jobb, trekker Marco seg inn i seg selv og prøver å overleve på så lite som mulig. Hadde det ikke vært for Kitty Wu, ville han ha sultet i hjel. Marco får arbeid hos en eksentrisk og rik gammel mann. Han vil ha skrevet sin livshistorie - en utrolig historie som også vi får ta del i, og som senere skal komme til å bli Marcos ledetråd til sin ukjente far.

Nästan två veckor för tidigt, den 3 mars 1947, föds en liten pojke på Beth Israel-sjukhuset i New Jersey. Han är Rose och Stanley Fergusons efterlängtade första barn, och han får namnet Archibald Isaac Ferguson. Från det ögonblicket förgrenar sig berättelsen om Archie Ferguson i fyra olika riktningar. Fyra pojkar, som egentligen är en och samma, växer upp i femtio- och sextiotalets USA och lever fyra parallella men olika liv. I en version omkommer Fergusons far i en brand, i en annan skiljer sig hans föräldrar, i den ena förlorar Ferguson två av fingrarna på sin vänsterhand, i en annan har han en framgångsrik sportkarriär. Varje Ferguson faller för den oemotståndliga Amy Schneiderman, men berättelsen om Amy och Ferguson är ny varje gång. Vad är det som avgör vilken riktning livet tar? Vilken roll spelar släktens historia? Finns det något som är förutbestämt i vårt DNA? 4321 rör sig från den sömniga förorten i New Jersey till myllret i New York och Paris, från sportdrömmar till författardrömmar, från femtiotalets framtidstro till Kennedymordet, Vietnamkriget och en generations krossade illusioner, den amerikanska rasismen och längtan till Europa. Det är en storslagen och uppslukande roman om en ung mans vuxenblivande speglat i ett Amerika i förändring – en höjdpunkt i Paul Austers författarskap.

On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. Each version of Ferguson's story rushes across the fractured terrain of mid-twentieth century America, in this sweeping story of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of life itself.

An inside look into Paul Auster's art and craft, the inspirations and obsessions, mesmerizing and dramatic in turn. A remarkably candid, and often surprisingly dramatic, investigation into one writer's art, craft, and life, A Life in Words is rooted in three years of dialogue between Auster and Professor I. B. Siegumfeldt, starting in 2011, while Siegumfeldt was in the process of launching the Center for Paul Auster Studies at the University of Copenhagen. It includes a number of surprising disclosures, both concerning Auster's work and about the art of writing generally. It is a book that's full of surprises, unscripted yet amounting to a sharply focused portrait of the inner workings of one of America's most productive and successful writers, through all twenty-one of Auster's narrative works and the themes and obsessions that drive them.

Auster's Booker Prize-shortlisted epic from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: 'a literary voice for the ages' (Guardian) 'A masterpiece.' Daily Mail'Absorbing and immersive . . . the author's greatest novel.' FTSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous but entirely different paths. Family fortunes diverge. Loves and friendships and passions contrast. Each version of Ferguson's story rushes across the fractured terrain of mid-twentieth century America, in this sweeping story of birthright and possibility, of love and the fullness of life itself.'Remarkable . . . A novel that contains multitudes.' New York Times'A vast portrait of the turbulent mid-20th century . . . wonderfully, vividly conveyed.' New Statesman

Tre berättelser, tre historier som blandar deckargenrens rekvisita med den moderna romanens identitetsproblematik. Tillsammans utgör de Paul Austers klassiker New York-trilogin, en redan mytomspunnen milstolpe i den amerikanska samtidslitteraturen. I första delen, Stad av glas, blir deckarförfattaren Quinn uppringd av någon som söker detektiven Paul Auster. Plötsligt finner han sig indragen i ett mysterium mer intrikat än något han själv kunnat tänka ut. I den efterföljande Vålnader vill White att Blue ska skugga Black och hålla honom under uppsikt så länge det blir nödvändigt. Från en lägenhet på andra sidan gatan kan Blue se hur Black sitter och skriver. Trilogin avslutas med Det låsta rummet. Fanshawe var berättarens vän under skoltiden men sedan förlorade de kontakten. Så kommer oväntat ett brev från Fanshawes hustru, som skriver att hennes man är försvunnen.

"Izmyshlenie odinochestva" - debjut Pola Ostera, avtora "Knigi illjuzij", "Mistera Vertigo", "Nju-jorkskoj trilogii", "Timbuktu", "Khrama Luny". Odinochestvo - skvoznaja tema knigi. Inogda ono - nakazanie, kak v sluchae s biblejskim Ionoj, okazavshimsja v chreve kita. Inogda - dar, dobrovolnoe reshenie otgoroditsja ot drugikh, chtoby uslyshat sebja. Odinochestvo pozvoljaet sozdat sobstvennyj mir, sdelat ego nevidimym i nepostizhimym dlja drugikh. Posle smerti cheloveka etot mir, kotoryj on tschatelno oberegal ot vtorzhenija, stanovitsja ujazvim. Tak proizoshlo posle smerti ottsa glavnogo geroja. Vsju zhizn otets kazalsja synu tainstvennym, "nevidimym" chelovekom, kotorogo slozhno ponjat, kotoryj nikogda ne raskroetsja do kontsa dazhe blizkim. I lish posle smerti ottsa syn smog nebolshimi fragmentami vosstanovit ego zhizn, otkryt tajny, ne prednaznachennye dlja chuzhikh, zanovo uznat togo, s kem, kak okazalos, on pochti i ne byl znakom.

This volume of Paul Auster's collected novels includes Travels in the Scriptorium, Man in the Dark, Invisible and Sunset Park.

INTRODUCTION BY JO NESBØAFTERWORD BY PAUL AUSTERNineteenth-century Kristiania is an unforgiving place, and work is thin on the ground. Roaming the streets of Norway's capital, a penniless young writer searches for inspiration whilst trying desperately to make ends meet. Driven to extraordinary lengths, sleeping under the stars with his stomach growling, the writer's behaviour becomes increasingly irrational and his world spirals into chaos. Hunger was Knut Hamsun's first novel and earned him the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1920. A disturbing and darkly humorous masterpiece of existential fiction, Hunger anticipated and influenced some of the twentieth century's most acclaimed writers including Camus, Kafka and Fante.

The contemporary classic from 'our supreme post-modernist' (Ian McEwan) - expanding the possibilities of the noir detective novel - whose writing 'shines with intelligence and originality' (Don DeLillo)The New York Trilogy is the most astonishing work by America's most consistently astonishing writer: three interconnected novels that exploit the riveting elements of classic detective fiction to achieve a radical new genre - a profound and unsettling existentialist enquiry in the tradition of Kafka or Borges. In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it means to be human. The result is the modern novel at its finest which will shock, transfix and astound every reader.'Marks a new departure for the American novel.' Observer'A shatteringly clever piece of work . . . Utterly gripping, written with an acid sharpness that leaves an indelible dent in the back of the mind.' Sunday Telegraph'One of the great American prose stylists of our time.' New York Times'Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter.' New York Review of Books

Sjuttiotvåårige August Brill återhämtar sig i sin dotters hus i Vermont efter en bilolycka. När han inte kan sova ligger han i sängen och fantiserar ihop historier för att hålla borta saker han helst av allt vill glömma, hans frus nyliga död och det fruktansvärd mordet på hans barnbarns pojkvän, Titus. August fantiserar om en parallell värld i vilken USA inte är i krig med Irak utan med sig självt. I detta andra USA föll aldrig World Trade Center och stat efter stat trädde ur unionen med ett blodigt inbördeskrig som följd. Medan natten fortskrider ökar August fantasier i styrka och det han så desperat vill glömma insisterar på att bli berättat. Mannen i mörkret är en roman om vår tid och utkom första gången 2008.