Most Popular Books by Paul Auster

“[A] civilized discourse between two cultivated and sophisticated men. . . . It’s a pleasure to be in their company.”—Michael Dirda, The Washington Post “An extended meditation on the processes of friendship, [Here and Now] has something substantive to offer.”—The New York Times Book Review After a meeting at an Australian literary festival brought them together in 2008, novelists Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee began exchanging letters on a regular basis with the hope they might “strike sparks off each other." Here and Now is the result: a three-year epistolary dialogue that touches on nearly every subject from sports to fatherhood, literature to film, philosophy to politics, from the financial crisis to art, death, marriage, friendship, and love. Their high-spirited and luminous correspondence offers an intimate and often amusing portrait of these two men as they explore the complexities of the here and now and reveal their delight in each other’s friendship on every page.

A Picador Paperback Original Written and directed by Paul Auster, the screenplay for The Inner Life of Martin Frost, starring David Thewlis, Irene Jacob, Michael Imperioli, and Sophie Auster. From The New York Trilogy to The Book of Illusions and 4 3 2 1, Paul Auster, one of America''s most spectacularly inventive novelists, established him as an award-winning filmmaker as well, with Smoke, Blue in the Face, and Lulu on the Bridge. Here, 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 the author''s 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 was released in 2007.

By turns poignant and comic, Paul Auster''s memoir is essentially an autobiography about money--and what it means not to have any. From the streets of New York and Paris to the rural roads of upstate New York, the author treats readers to a series of remarkable adventures and unforgettable encounters, as he attempts to survive on nothing. 3-color insert.

A timeless, utterly charming Christmas fable, beautifully illustrated and destined to become a classic When Paul Auster was asked by The New York Times to write a Christmas story for the Op-Ed page, the result, "Auggie Wren''s Christmas Story," led to Auster''s collaboration on a film adaptation, Smoke. Now the story has found yet another life in this enchanting illustrated edition with Argentine artist Isol. It begins with a writer''s dilemma: he''s been asked by The New York Times to write a story that will appear in the paper on Christmas morning. The writer agrees, but he has a problem: How to write an unsentimental Christmas story? He unburdens himself to his friend at his local cigar shop, a colorful character named Auggie Wren. "A Christmas story? Is that all?" Auggie counters. "If you buy me lunch, my friend, I''ll tell you the best Christmas story you ever heard. And I guarantee every word of it is true." And an unconventional story it is, involving a lost wallet, a blind woman, and a Christmas dinner. Everything gets turned upside down. What''s stealing? What''s giving? What''s a lie? What''s the truth? It''s vintage Auster, and pure pleasure: a truly unsentimental but completely affecting tale.

In this acrobatic and virtuosic collection, Paul Auster traces the compulsion to make literature. In a selection of interviews, as well as in the essay ''The Red Notebook'' itself, Auster reflects upon his own work, on the need to break down the boundary between living and writing, and on the use of certain genre conventions to penetrate matters of memory and identity. The Red Notebook both illuminates and undermines our accepted notions about literature, and guides us towards a finer understanding of the dangerously high stakes involved in writing. It also includes Paul Auster''s impassioned essay ''A Prayer for Salman Rushdie'', as well as a set of striking and bittersweet reminiscences collected under the apposite title, ''Why Write?''

In this astonishingly acrobatic work, Paul Auster 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 vital figures of our century. In a section of interviews as well as in the revelatory ?The Red Notebook,? Auster reflects on his own work: on the need to break down the boundary between living and writing; on the use of certain genre conventions to penetrate matters of memory and identity. The Art of Hunger undermines and expands our accepted notions about literature and throws an uprecedented light on his own richly allusive writing.

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.

A graphic novel classic with a new introduction by Art Spiegelman Quinn writes mysteries. The Washington Post has described him as a “post-existentialist private eye.” An unknown voice on the telephone is now begging for his help, drawing him into a world and a mystery far stranger than any he ever created in print. Adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli, with graphics by David Mazzucchelli, Paul Auster’s groundbreaking, Edgar Award-nominated masterwork has been astonishingly transformed into a new visual language.

The insider''s guide and perfect companion to the new film starring Harvey Keitel, Mira Sorvino, and Vanessa Redgrave--the romantic story of two lonely, mismatched strangers, transformed into soul mates by the uncanny power of a phosphorescent stone. 40 photos.

A Washington Post Best Book of the Year "Man in the Dark is an undoubted pleasure to read. Auster really does possess the wand of the enchanter."--Michael Dirda, The New York Review of Books From a "literary original" (The Wall Street Journal) comes a book that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence. Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident at his daughter''s house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget: his wife''s recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter''s boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union and a bloody civil war ensued. As the night progresses, Brill''s story grows increasingly intense, and what he is desperately trying to avoid insists on being told.

Acclaimed author Paul Aster shows the reader how his short story metamorphosed into a feature film starring William Hurt, Harvey Keitel, Forest Whitaker and Stockard Channing. The book includes the short story, photos, conversations with the actors and Auster, and follows the process of a germ of an idea being brought to fruition.

“Magnificent poetry; dark, severe, even harsh—yet pulsating with life.” —John Ashbery White Spaces gathers the poetry and prose of Paul Auster from various small-press books issued throughout the seventies. These early poetic works are crucial for understanding the evolution of Auster’s writing. Taut, lyrical, and always informed by a powerful and subtle music, his poems begin with basics—a swallow’s egg, stones, roots, thistle, “the glacial rose”—and push language to the breaking point. As Robert Creeley wrote, “The enduring power of these early poems is their moving address to a world all too elusive, too fragmented, and too bitterly transient.” Auster’s poems are grounded in a physical utterance that is at once an exploration of the mind and of the world. This collection begins with compact verse fragments from Spokes (originally published in Poetry, 1971) and goes through Auster’s marvelous later collections including Wall Writing (The Figures, 1976), Facing the Music (Parenthèse, 1979), and White Spaces (Station Hill, 1980).

An Updated Collection of Nonfiction, including the seminal work The Invention of Solitude, from Man Booker Prize Finalist Paul AusterPaul Auster has spent his fifty-year writing career examining what it means to be truly alive. And now, for the first time ever, in this newly self-curated collection, Auster stitches together various autobiographical writings to lay bare the trajectory of both his personal life and sense of self.From his breakout memoir, The Invention of Solitude, which solidified Auster''s reputation as a canonical voice in American letters, to excerpts from his later memoirs, Winter Journal and Report from the Interior, readers are ushered into the inner workings of Auster''s self-development. His sweeping recollection winds through the halls of Columbia University during the turbulent 1960s and into life as a young poet-turned-novelist, then dives headfirst into the realities that accompany aging today. Along the way, Auster continually challenges the notion of what autobiography can be, inverting the form through fragmentation and, ultimately, illustrating firsthand the brilliance behind "one of the great writers of our time" (San Francisco Chronicle).

Efter et langt sygdomsforløb lider forfatteren Sidney Orr af skriveblokering. En ny notesbog sætter ham i gang med en historie, der tilsyneladende får skæbnesvanger indflydelse på hans liv. Forfatteren Sidney Orr er langsomt ved at komme sig efter en alvorlig sygdom. Under en af sine daglige spadsereture i kvarteret, hvor han bor, går han helt tilfældigt ind i en papirvareforretning, hvor han bliver fristet til at købe en blå notesbog. Denne i sig selv banale hændelse bliver starten på en række begivenheder, som ændrer tilværelsen afgørende for Sidney Orr og de mennesker, der står ham nærmest. Paul Austers Orakelnat er en fortælling om historien i historien, en slags "kinesisk æske-roman". "Paul Auster har aldrig været bedre end i ''Orakel nat'' ... Det er Auster på de høje nagler, og ''Orakel nat'' skal - jeg mener: SKAL – læses af alle, der både vil tænke og bevæges." - Bo Kampmann Walther i Kristeligt Dagblad "Der er ikke én god fortælling, men hundredevis af små gode historier, anekdoter og dokumenter (f.eks. en side fra en polsk telefonbog fra 1937), der spejler og infilterer bogens overordnede kammerspil ... Man får fornemmelsen af at være vidne til et frydefuldt litterært trylleri. Men det er ikke bar underholdning. Under overfladen er det brændende alvor for Auster." - Karsten R. S. Ifversen i Politiken

Marco Stanley Fogg és un orfe que intenta trobar respostes als interrogants que li planteja el seu passat i al gran enigma del destí. En la seva determinació per trobar el pare, Marco inicia un viatge que el portarà des dels calls de Manhattan fins als deserts de Utah. Amb una habilitat extraordinària per evocar la desesperació davant la soledat, Paul Auster construeix una història plena de lirisme i ens fa partícips de la tragèdia i la redempció de tres generacions al llarg d''un període que va des del principi del segle XX fins a l''arribada de l''home a la lluna.

Una novela magistral sobre el poder del destino llamada a coronar la obra de Paul Auster. El único hecho inmutable en la vida de Ferguson es que nació el 3 de marzo de 1947 en Newark, Nueva Jersey. A partir de ese momento, varios caminos se abren ante él y le llevarán a vivir cuatro vidas completamente distintas, a crecer y a explorar de formas diferentes el amor, la amistad, la familia, el arte, la política e incluso la muerte, con algunos de los acontecimientos que han marcado la segunda mitad del siglo xx americano como telón de fondo. ¿Y si hubieras actuado de otra forma en un momento crucial de tu vida? 4 3 2 1, la primera novela de Paul Auster después de siete años, es un emotivo retrato de toda una generación, un coming of age universal y una saga familiar que explora de manera deslumbrante los límites del azar y las consecuencias de nuestras decisiones. Porque todo suceso, por irrelevante que parezca, abre unas posibilidades y cierra otras. «Siento que he estado preparándome toda la vida para escribir este libro», reconocía el autor de La trilogía de Nueva York en una entrevista con el director de cine Wim Wenders. Acogida por los medios como «la mejor novela de Auster» (Harper''s Magazine), estamos ante un ejercicio soberbio de precisión narrativa e imaginación, llamado a coronar la carrera literaria de uno de los grandes escritores de nuestra época.

Una de las novelas clave para entender a Paul Auster cuando se cumplen 20 años de su publicación. Una mirada tan dura como hermosa de la naturaleza humana a través de los ojos de un perro callejero. Cuando Mister Bones, un perro callejero de gran inteligencia, se encuentra con Willy G. Christmas, poeta errante y vagabundo, se convierten en confidentes inseparables. Como si de don Quijote y Sancho Panza se tratara, comparten sus días con la soledad, el azar y la dureza de la vida en la calle. El día en que el hombre presiente que su muerte está cercana y que se aproxima a un mítico mundo al que él llama Tombuctú, decide iniciar un último viaje a Baltimore para buscar a su antigua maestra y confiarle a su fiel amigo.

Nathan Glass a soixante ans. Une longue carrière dans une compagnie d''assurances à Manhattan, un divorce, un cancer en rémission et une certaine solitude qui ne l''empêche pas d''aborder le dernier versant de son existence avec sérénité. Sous le charme de Brooklyn et de ses habitants, il entreprend d''écrire un livre dans lequel seraient consignés ses souvenirs, ses lapsus, ses grandes et petites histoires mais aussi celles des gens qu''il a croisés, rencontrés ou aimés. Un matin de printemps de l''an 2000, dans une librairie, Nathan Glass retrouve son neveu Tom Wood, perdu de vue depuis longtemps. C''est ensemble qu''ils vont poursuivre leur chemin, partager leurs émotions, leurs faiblesses, leurs utopies mais aussi et surtout le rêve d''une vie meilleure à l''hôtel Existence... Un livre sur le désir d''aimer. Un roman chaleureux, où les personnages prennent leur vie en main, choisissent leur destin, vivent le meilleur des choses - mais pour combien de temps, encore, en Amérique ?...

En Nathan Glass té seixanta anys. I tot i un divorci, un càncer en estat avançat, una llarga carrerra en una companyia d''assegurances a Manhattan i un estrany sentiment de solitud, no han impedit que es disposi a afrontar l''últim tram de la seva existència amb una certa serenitat, motiu pel qual ha decidit traslladar-se a Brooklyn. Aviat, en el dia a dia, queda fascinat pels costums dels habitants del barri i, seduït per l''encant d''un cambrer, decideix escriure un llibre en el qual consignarà els seus records, els oblits, les mancances del seu estil, les grans o petites històries que ha viscut al llarg dels anys, però també les històries de la gent que s''ha creuat en el seu camí. De sobte, però, un matí de primavera aquest llibre titulat Bogeries de Brooklyn pren un canvi de rumb. El 23 de maig de l''any 2000 en Glass topa amb el seu nebot, en Tom Wood, de qui feia temps que no sabia res, i que treballa en una llibreria del barri -una situació molt distant de la brillant carrera acadèmica que havia començat l''última vegada que l''havia vist. Així, de cop, tots dos reprenen la seva història, compartint les seves emocions, les seves febleses, els seus destins, i també, o sobretot, el somni conjunt d''una vida millor a l''Hotel Existència, lluny de les realitats insuportables del món modern. Paul Auster és novel·lista, poeta, guionista i director de cinema. Entre les seves novel·les cal destacar Trilogia de Nova York. Edicions 62 li ha publicat La música de l''atzar, Viure al dia, Timbuktú, La invenció de la solitud, Mr. Vertigo, Leviatan, el guió de la pel·lícula Lulu on the Bridge, dirigida per ell mateix, Experiments amb la veritat, Vaig creure que el meu pare era Déu, El Palau de la Lluna, El llibre de les il·lusions i La nit de l''oracle. Els seus llibres han estat traduïts a quinze idiomes. Paul Auster viu a Brooklyn (Nova York).