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"Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner-phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor-has just forgotten on the stove. Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals of memory and reminiscence, delineated in episodes spanning from 1968, when Sy and Anna meet as broke students working and writing in New York,…mehr

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"Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner-phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor-has just forgotten on the stove. Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals of memory and reminiscence, delineated in episodes spanning from 1968, when Sy and Anna meet as broke students working and writing in New York, through their passionate relationship over the next forty years, and back to Baumgartner's youth in Newark and his Polish-born father's life as a dress-shop owner and failed revolutionary. Rich with compassion, wit, and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient details of ordinary life, Baumgartner asks: Why do we remember certain moments, and forget others?"--
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Paul Auster (1947-2024) fue un escritor, traductor y cineasta. Autor de los libros Jugada de presión (1982), escrito bajo el pseudónimo de Paul Benjamin; La invención de la soledad (1982); La trilogía de Nueva York (1987), compuesta por las novelas Ciudad de cristal (1985), Fantasmas (1986) y La habitación cerrada (1986); El país de las últimas cosas (1987); El Palacio de la Luna (1989); La música del azar (1990); Pista de despegue (1990); El cuento de Navidad de Auggie Wren (1990); Leviatán (1992); El cuaderno rojo (1992); Mr. Vértigo (1994); A salto de mata (1997); Tombuctú (1999); Experimentos con la verdad (2000); El libro de las ilusiones (2002); La historia de mi máquina de escribir (2002); La noche del oráculo (2003); Brooklyn Follies (2005); Viajes por el Scriptorium (2006); Un hombre en la oscuridad (2008); Invisible (2009); Sunset Park (2010); Diario de invierno (2012) e Informe del interior (2013) y editó el libro de relatos Creía que mi padre era Dios (2001). Auster recibió numerosos galardones, entre lo que destacan el Premio Médicis por la novela Leviatán, el Independent Spirit Award por el guión de Smoke, el Premio al mejor libro del año del Gremio de Libreros de Madrid por El libro de las ilusiones, el Premio Qué Leer por La noche del oráculo y el Premio Leteo. En 2006 recibió el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras. Fue miembro de la American Academy of Arts and Letters y Caballero de la Orden de las Artes y las Letras Francesa. Su obra está traducida a más de cuarenta idiomas. Paul Auster (1947-2024) was the bestselling author of Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions, The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honors are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Medicis Étranger for Leviathan. He has also been shortlisted for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than forty languages.