Paul Auster – författare

Tre berättelser, tre historier som blandar deckargenrens rekvisita med den moderna romanens identitetsproblematik. Tillsammans utgör de Paul Austers klassiker New York-trilogin, en redan mytomspunnen milstolpe i den amerikanska samtidslitteraturen.I första delen, Stad av glas, blir deckarförfattaren Quinn uppringd av någon som söker detektiven Paul Auster. Plötsligt finner han sig indragen i ett mysterium mer intrikat än något han själv kunnat tänka ut. I den efterföljande Vålnader vill White att Blue ska skugga Black och hålla honom under uppsikt så länge det blir nödvändigt. Från en lägenhet på andra sidan gatan kan Blue se hur Black sitter och skriver. Trilogin avslutas med Det låsta rummet. Fanshawe var berättarens vän under skoltiden men sedan förlorade de kontakten. Så kommer oväntat ett brev från Fanshawes hustru, som skriver att hennes man är försvunnen.

"Baumgartner är ett värdigt, vackert och mycket austerskt avsked. Livstidsdomen må vara avtjänad, men de meningar Paul Auster mejslade fram kommer att bestå lika länge som den mänskliga civilisationen." Tidningen Vi

"Paul Austers sista roman är hans första austerska roman på länge ... Texten liksom springer i sicksack för att undkomma sin egen skugga, bara för att rusa i dess famn." Svenska Dagbladet

"Detta är hans sista bok och den utmärks av samma intelligens, humor och klokskap som alltid präglat hans verk ... Ett avsked värdigt en av USA:s största författare." Aftonbladet

Seymour Baumgartner – änkeman, författare, professor vid Princeton – upplever en morgon den ena förargliga motgången efter den andra. Han glömmer att stänga av spisen och bränner handen på äggkastrullen, han halkar i källartrappan och skadar knät. Till sist blir han sittande på en köksstol i det tomma huset och bara stirrar. Blicken faller på den eländiga kastrullen. Den leder tankarna vidare till Anna, Baumgartners älskade hustru som varit död i nästan tio år. Första gången han såg henne var i second hand-butiken där han som ung utfattig student köpte just den där kastrullen.

Paul Austers "Baumgartner" blickar tillbaka på ett liv och berättar om skrivande, fantomsmärtor, kärlek och sorg

From award-winning novelist Paul Auster comes the graphic adaptation of his deeply beloved series, The New York Trilogy, a postmodern take on detective and noir fiction.

In 1994, Paul Auster's City of Glass was adapted into a graphic novel and became an immediate cult classic, published in over 30 editions worldwide, excerpted in The Norton Anthology of Postmodern Fiction. But City of Glass was only the first novel in a series of books, Auster's acclaimed New York Trilogy, and graphic novel readers have been waiting for years for the other two tales to be translated into comics.

Now the wait is over.

The New York Trilogy is post-modern literature disguised as Noir fiction where language is the prime suspect. An interpretation of detective and mystery fiction, each book explores various philosophical themes. In City of Glass, an author of detective fiction investigates a murder and descends into madness. Ghosts features a private eye named Blue, trailing a man named Black, for a client called White. This too ends with the protagonist's downfall. And in The Locked Room, another author is experiencing writer's block, and hopes to brake it by solving the disappearance of his childhood friend. The second two parts of this trilogy will be appearing in this volume for the very first time as a graphic novel.

Paul Karasik, the mastermind behind the three adaptations, art directed all three books. City of Glass is illustrated by the award-winning cartoonist David Mazzucchielli, the second volume, Ghosts, is illustrated by New Yorker cover artist, Lorenzo Mattotti, and The Locked Room is adapted and drawn by Karasik himself. These adaptations take Auster's sophisticated wordplay and translate it into comicsplay: both highbrow and lowbrow and immensely fun reading.

In his debut memoir, renowned author Paul Auster shares heartfelt and personal meditations on fatherhood that "integrates heart and intellect, sensation and speculation . . . as it relentlessly tries to make sense of the shocks of living" (Newsday)

"Moving, delicately perceived portraits of lives and relationships."-The New York Times Book Review

  "One day there is life. . . . And then, suddenly, it happens there is death."

  The Invention of Solitude, split into two stylistically separate sections, established Paul Auster's reputation as a major voice in American literature. The first section, "Portrait of an Invisible Man," explores Auster's memories and feelings after the death of his father, a distant, undemonstrative, almost cold man. As he attends to his father's business affairs and sifts through his effects, Auster uncovers a sixty-year-old family murder mystery that sheds light on his father's elusive character. In "The Book of Memory," the perspective shifts from Auster's identity as a son to his role as a father. Through a mosaic of images, coincidences, and associations, the narrator, "A," contemplates his separation from his son, his dying grandfather, and the solitary nature of storytelling and writing.

After losing his wife and two young sons in an airplane crash, professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours in a blur of alcoholic grief and self-pity. Then, watching television one night, he sees a clip from a lost film by the silent comedian Hector Mann. Zimmer soon finds himself embarking on a journey around the world to study the works of this mysterious figure, who vanished from sight in 1929.

Presumed dead for sixty years, Hector Mann was a comic genius who had flashed briefly across American movie screens, tantalizing the public with the promise of a brilliant future. Then, just as the silent era came to an end, he walked out of his house one January morning and was never heard from again.

Zimmer''s research leads him to write the first full-length study of Hector''s films. Upon publication the following year, a letter turns up bearing a return address from 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 from him, changing his life forever.