The Invention of Solitude

ISBN-13: 9780571288328 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 208 str.

Paul Auster

Opis

The first section of this book reveals Auster's memories and feelings after the death of his grandfather then the perspective shifts to Auster's role as a father. The narrator contemplates the solitary nature of story-telling and writing.

O autorze

Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions and 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 honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Médicis 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.

He lives in Brooklyn, New York.