Description
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.
About the Author
A critically acclaimed novelist, essayist, and translator, Paul Auster lives in Brooklyn. He is the author of many novels, including 4321, The New York Trilogy, and City of Glass. New Directions publishes his Red Notebook as well as his translations of Stephane Mallarme's A Tomb for Anatole and Philippe Petit's On the High Wire.
Reviews
"A literary original who is perfecting a genre of his own." -- The Wall Street Journal
"The Red Notebook stories, pulled from Auster's own life or from the lives of those close to him, are explorations of unexpected coincidences. A wrong number becomes the genesis for a famous novel; a hero appears at an inopportune moment; a lightning storm harries a group of campers; a daughter plunges from a terrifying height only to land improbably safely; a Paul Auster imposter materializes. Like a magic show, The Red Notebook demonstrates that "there is much to life that is special and serendipitous - if only we allow ourselves to perceive it this way."" -- The Washington Post
"Paul Auster is definitely a genius." -- Haruki Murakami
"Our pre-eminent novelist of ideas." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Auster has added some new dimensions to modern literature and-more importantly even-to our perspectives on the planet." -- Boston Globe
Book Information
ISBN 9780811214988
Author Paul Auster
Format Paperback
Page Count 104
Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
Weight(grams) 86g
Dimensions(mm) 180mm * 122mm * 10mm
About the Author
A critically acclaimed novelist, essayist, and translator, Paul Auster lives in Brooklyn. He is the author of many novels, including 4321, The New York Trilogy, and City of Glass. New Directions publishes his Red Notebook as well as his translations of Stephane Mallarme's A Tomb for Anatole and Philippe Petit's On the High Wire.
Reviews
"A literary original who is perfecting a genre of his own." -- The Wall Street Journal
"The Red Notebook stories, pulled from Auster's own life or from the lives of those close to him, are explorations of unexpected coincidences. A wrong number becomes the genesis for a famous novel; a hero appears at an inopportune moment; a lightning storm harries a group of campers; a daughter plunges from a terrifying height only to land improbably safely; a Paul Auster imposter materializes. Like a magic show, The Red Notebook demonstrates that "there is much to life that is special and serendipitous - if only we allow ourselves to perceive it this way."" -- The Washington Post
"Paul Auster is definitely a genius." -- Haruki Murakami
"Our pre-eminent novelist of ideas." -- Kirkus Reviews
"Auster has added some new dimensions to modern literature and-more importantly even-to our perspectives on the planet." -- Boston Globe
Book Information
ISBN 9780811214988
Author Paul Auster
Format Paperback
Page Count 104
Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation
Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation
Weight(grams) 86g
Dimensions(mm) 180mm * 122mm * 10mm
