"I believe this is a very important book for people who want to know what it means to be a writer." Barry Gifford
The most distinguished American writer of [his] generation . . . indeed its only author . . . with any claim to greatness. The Spectator (UK)
One of the great writers of our time. San Francisco Chronicle
"Nabokov once said 'I divide literature into two categories, the books I wish I had written, and the books I have written.' In the former category I would put books by Kurt Vonnegut, Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, and Paul Auster." Umberto Eco (in the Paris Review)
PAUL AUSTER is one of the very few giants of English-language literature who has successfully made the leap from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. A poet and translator before he achieved international prominence as a memoirist and novelist, Auster continues to challenge and dazzle his readers in America and around the world. His most recent novel is 4 3 2 1.
I. B. SIEGUMFELDT is an associate professor of English, Germanic, and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and the driving force behind the university's forthcoming Paul Auster Center.