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Paul Auster

1947 - 2024

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Paul Benjamin Auster (February 3, 1947 – April 30, 2024) was an American writer, novelist, memoirist, poet, and filmmaker. His notable works include The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), The Brooklyn Follies (2005), Invisible (2009), Sunset Park (2010), Winter Journal (2012), and 4 3 2 1 (2017). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Auster has received more than 1,999,229 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Paul Auster is the 366th most popular writer (up from 401st in 2019), the 347th most popular biography from United States (up from 409th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular American Writer.

Paul Auster is an American author, best known for his novels "The New York Trilogy" and "In the Country of Last Things".

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Notable Works

The New York Trilogy
1987
The invention of solitude
1982
Mr. Vertigo
1994
The art of hunger
1991
The Brooklyn Follies
2005
Man in the dark
Fiction, Imaginary wars and battles, Alternative histories (Fiction), American
August Brill ha sufrido un accidente de coche y se está recuperando en casa de su hija, en Vermont. No puede dormir, e inventa historias en la oscuridad. En una de ellas, es Owen Brick, un joven mago que despierta en el fondo de un foso. No sabe dónde está pero oye el ruido de una batalla. Entonces aparece el sargento Serge, que le ayuda a salir, y Brick descubre que América está inmersa en una oscura guerra civil. Los atentados del once de septiembre no han tenido lugar, y tampoco la guerra de Irak. Los Estados Unidos combaten desde hace tiempo, pero contra ellos mismos. Unos cuantos estados han declarado la independencia. Brick se entera de que su misión es asesinar a un tal Blake, o Block, o Black, un hombre que no puede dormir, y que inventa en la noche esa guerra que no acabará nunca si él no muere. Aunque no se llama Blake ni Block ni Black, sino August Brill, y puede contarnos una feroz y veraz fábula de nuestros días. «Prepárense a robarle tiempo al sueño para devorársela en una sola noche. Así es Auster, queridos» (Manuel Rodríguez Rivero); «Una espléndida historia de fantasías posibles, mundos paralelos y juegos con la Historia» (Javier Aparicio Maydeu, El País).
2008
Sult
Fiction Classics, Literary Fiction, Mental Depression
First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes into the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic traditions. ---------- Also contained in: - [Ernest Hemingway / Knut Hamsun / Hermann Hesse ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17970062W)
1890
Mr. Vertigo
Fiction, Magicians, Older men in fiction
1994
The art of hunger
Literature, History and criticism, Modern Literature
1991
The Brooklyn Follies
Autobiography, Fiction, Middle-aged men
2005
The New York Trilogy
Fiction, City and town life, Social life and customs
The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it means to be human. Auster's book is modern fiction at its finest: bold, arresting and unputdownable.
1987
The Brooklyn Follies
Autobiography, Fiction, Middle-aged men
2005
Sult
Fiction Classics, Literary Fiction, Mental Depression
First published in Norway in 1890, Hunger probes into the depths of consciousness with frightening and gripping power. Like the works of Dostoyevsky, it marks an extraordinary break with Western literary and humanistic traditions. ---------- Also contained in: - [Ernest Hemingway / Knut Hamsun / Hermann Hesse ](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL17970062W)
1890
The New York Trilogy
Fiction, City and town life, Social life and customs
The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In each story the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it means to be human. Auster's book is modern fiction at its finest: bold, arresting and unputdownable.
1987
Mr. Vertigo
Fiction, Magicians, Older men in fiction
1994
The art of hunger
Literature, History and criticism, Modern Literature
In a section of interviews as well as in The Red Notebook, Auster reflects on his own work - on the need to break down the boundary between living and writing, and on the use of certain genre conventions to penetrate matters of memory and identity. The Art of Hunger undermines and illuminates our accepted notions about literature and throws an unprecedented light on Auster's own richly allusive writings.
1991
Man in the dark
Fiction, Imaginary wars and battles, Alternative histories (Fiction), American
August Brill ha sufrido un accidente de coche y se está recuperando en casa de su hija, en Vermont. No puede dormir, e inventa historias en la oscuridad. En una de ellas, es Owen Brick, un joven mago que despierta en el fondo de un foso. No sabe dónde está pero oye el ruido de una batalla. Entonces aparece el sargento Serge, que le ayuda a salir, y Brick descubre que América está inmersa en una oscura guerra civil. Los atentados del once de septiembre no han tenido lugar, y tampoco la guerra de Irak. Los Estados Unidos combaten desde hace tiempo, pero contra ellos mismos. Unos cuantos estados han declarado la independencia. Brick se entera de que su misión es asesinar a un tal Blake, o Block, o Black, un hombre que no puede dormir, y que inventa en la noche esa guerra que no acabará nunca si él no muere. Aunque no se llama Blake ni Block ni Black, sino August Brill, y puede contarnos una feroz y veraz fábula de nuestros días. «Prepárense a robarle tiempo al sueño para devorársela en una sola noche. Así es Auster, queridos» (Manuel Rodríguez Rivero); «Una espléndida historia de fantasías posibles, mundos paralelos y juegos con la Historia» (Javier Aparicio Maydeu, El País).
2008

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Paul Auster ranks 366 out of 7,302. Before him are Margaret Mitchell, Christine de Pizan, Ian Fleming, Mahmoud Darwish, Mario Puzo, and Ahmad ibn Fadlan. After him are Jo Nesbø, Alphonse de Lamartine, Ennius, Octavio Paz, Friedrich Dürrenmatt, and Tulsidas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Paul Auster ranks 20. Before him are Josep Borrell, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Salman Rushdie, James Hunt, Shirin Ebadi, and Mario Draghi. After him are Takeshi Kitano, Megawati Sukarnoputri, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Paco de Lucía, Michael Porter, and O. J. Simpson. Among people deceased in 2024, Paul Auster ranks 5. Before him are Franz Beckenbauer, Mário Zagallo, Daniel Kahneman, and Peter Higgs. After him are Alice Munro, Vittorio Emanuele, Prince of Naples, O. J. Simpson, Arno Allan Penzias, Françoise Hardy, Sebastián Piñera, and Alexei Navalny.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Auster ranks 347 out of 20,380. Before him are Margaret Mitchell (1900), Geraldine Chaplin (1944), Mario Puzo (1920), Sharon Stone (1958), Gertrude B. Elion (1918), and Calvin Klein (1942). After him are John Cage (1912), Julia Roberts (1967), Fred Astaire (1899), Rachel Carson (1907), Jack Lemmon (1925), and Spencer Tracy (1900).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Paul Auster ranks 33. Before him are Henry Miller (1891), Ezra Pound (1885), Louise Glück (1943), James Fenimore Cooper (1789), Margaret Mitchell (1900), and Mario Puzo (1920). After him are O. Henry (1862), Raymond Chandler (1888), Henry James (1843), Dan Brown (1964), Sylvia Plath (1932), and Philip Roth (1933).

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