Paul Auster's Writing Machine
Author : Evija Trofimova
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,80 MB
Release : 2014
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781628927061
Author : Evija Trofimova
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,80 MB
Release : 2014
Category : American literature
ISBN : 9781628927061
Author : Evija Trofimova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 19,12 MB
Release : 2014-08-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1623560810
Paul Auster is one of the most acclaimed figures in American literature. Known primarily as a novelist, Auster's films and various collaborations are now gaining more recognition. Evija Trofimova offers a radically different approach to the author's wider body of work, unpacking the fascinating web of relationships between his texts and presenting Auster's canon as a rhizomatic facto-fictional network produced by a set of writing tools. Exploring Auster's literal and figurative use of these tools – the typewriter, the cigarette, the doppelgänger figure, the city – Evija Trofimova discovers Auster's “writing machine”, a device that works both as a means to write and as a construct that manifests the emblematic writer-figure. This is a book about assembling texts and textual networks, the writing machines that produce them, and the ways such machines invest them with meaning. Embarking on a scholarly quest that takes her from between the lines of Auster's work to between the streets of his beloved New York and finally to the man himself, Paul Auster's Writing Machine becomes not just a critical investigation but a critical collaboration, raising important questions about the ultimate meaning of Auster's work, and about the relationship between texts, their authors, their readers and their critics.
Author : Paul Auster
Publisher : Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 50,12 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The story of a manual Olympia typewriter, more than 25 years old, and the agent of transmission for the work of one of the most varied and critically acclaimed contemporary authors. Also the story of a relationship, between Auster, his typewriter, and the artist Sam Messer, who, as Auster writes, 'has turned an inanimate object into a being with a personality and a presence in the world.' Written in Auster's discerning prose and illustrated with Messer's obsessive drawings and paintings, this book will stun fans and fine-book lovers alike. 30 pages in full-colour.
Author : Paul Auster
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 22,57 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN :
Author : Paul Auster
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 20,82 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Absence and presumption of death
ISBN : 0312990960
A man's obsession with a silent-film star sends him on a journey into a shadow world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love Six months after losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a clip from a lost silent film by comedian Hector Mann. Zimmer's interest is piqued, and he soon finds himself embarking on a journey around the world to research a book on this mysterious figure, who vanished from sight in 1929 and has been presumed dead for sixty years. When the book is published the following year, a letter turns up in Zimmer's mailbox bearing a return address from a small town in New Mexico-supposedly written by Hector's wife. "Hector has read your book and would like to meet you. Are you interested in paying us a visit?" Is the letter a hoax, or is Hector Mann still alive? Torn between doubt and belief, Zimmer hesitates, until one night a strange woman appears on his doorstep and makes the decision for him, changing his life forever. This stunning novel plunges the reader into a universe in which the comic and the tragic, the real and the imagined, the violent and the tender dissolve into one another. With The Book of Illusions, one of America's most powerful and original writers has written his richest, most emotionally charged work yet.
Author : Paul Auster
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 42,2 MB
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0571317251
'One of the most original and audacious autobiographies ever written by a writer.' Le Monde Hand to Mouth tells the story of the young Paul Auster's struggle to stay afloat. By turns poignant and comic, Auster's memoir is essentially a book about money - and what it means not to have it. From one odd job to the next, from one failed scheme to another, Auster investigates his own stubborn compulsion to make art and, in the process, treats us to a series of remarkable adventures and unforgettable encounters. Hand to Mouth is essential reading for anyone interested in Paul Auster, in the figure of the struggling artist, in the nature of poverty, or in baseball.
Author : Paul Auster
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811214988
Contains: The red notebook -- Why write? -- Accident report -- It don't mean a thing.
Author : Paul Auster
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 22,7 MB
Release : 2009-04-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312428952
Originally published: New York: Henry Holt, 2003.
Author : Paul Auster
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 18,84 MB
Release : 2009-10-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429982462
From the internationally bestselling author of The New York Trilogy and 4 3 2 1, Paul Auster "One of America's greatest novelists" dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story with Invisible. Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girlfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life. Three different narrators tell the story of Invisible, a novel that travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside Heights, to the Left Bank of Paris, to a remote island in the Caribbean. It is a book of youthful rage, unbridled sexual hunger, and a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us into the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, between authorship and identity, to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as "one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers."
Author : Mark Brown
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780719073977
This study explores all of Auster's artistic output - both published and unpublished - for the first time, and considers, in considerable depth, his major themes of New York life, identity, community, writing and storytelling.