Paul Auster

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Paul Auster was an acclaimed American author known for his postmodern fiction and exploration of identity, chance, and the nature of reality.
His most famous works include The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions, and 4 3 2 1.
Auster received numerous literary awards and honors throughout his career, including the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the NYC Literary Honors.
His writing often incorporated elements of detective fiction, metafiction, and existentialism.
Auster's work has been translated into over 40 languages, cementing his status as a significant figure in contemporary literature.
He passed away in 2024 at the age of 77.

Knygos pagal Paul Auster

Moon Palace

parašė Paul Auster • 1989

As the world watches the moon landing, an orphaned student starves alone in New York.

3.98

29 000+

🧒 Orphan Protagonist 🫂 Found Family 🤫 Family Secrets 🎭 Picaresque Novel 💭 Existential Fiction

Moon Palace

As the world watches the moon landing, an orphaned student starves alone in New York.

parašė Paul Auster 1989 320 puslapiai

3.98

29 000+ įvertinimai

🧒 Orphan Protagonist 🫂 Found Family 🤫 Family Secrets 🎭 Picaresque Novel 💭 Existential Fiction

City of Glass

parašė Paul Auster • 1985

A mystery writer borrows a detective's name and shadows a mad linguist through New York.

3.75

24 000+

🕵️ Philosophical Mystery 🎭 Dissolving Identity 🗺️ City As Labyrinth 🪤 Language As Trap 🌃 Existential Noir

City of Glass

A mystery writer borrows a detective's name and shadows a mad linguist through New York.

parašė Paul Auster 1985 203 puslapiai

3.75

24 000+ įvertinimai

🕵️ Philosophical Mystery 🎭 Dissolving Identity 🗺️ City As Labyrinth 🪤 Language As Trap 🌃 Existential Noir

Baumgartner

parašė Paul Auster • 2023

An elderly professor, a decade into widowhood, still makes coffee for his dead wife.

3.72

18 000+

🖤 Grieving Widower 🕰️ Aging And Memory 💔 Embodied Grief 🌙 Dream Visitation 🤝 Intergenerational Friendship

Baumgartner

An elderly professor, a decade into widowhood, still makes coffee for his dead wife.

parašė Paul Auster 2023 208 puslapiai

3.72

18 000+ įvertinimai

🖤 Grieving Widower 🕰️ Aging And Memory 💔 Embodied Grief 🌙 Dream Visitation 🤝 Intergenerational Friendship

[Timbuktu] [by

parašė Paul Auster • 1999

A poet is dying. His dog narrates their final days together and the lonely world after.

3.73

17 000+

🐕 Animal Narrator 🐾 Dog's Journey 🏠 Found Family 🛣️ Road Narrative 🤔 Philosophical Fiction

[Timbuktu] [by

A poet is dying. His dog narrates their final days together and the lonely world after.

parašė Paul Auster 1999

3.73

17 000+ įvertinimai

🐕 Animal Narrator 🐾 Dog's Journey 🏠 Found Family 🛣️ Road Narrative 🤔 Philosophical Fiction

Mr. Vértigo (Biblioteca Paul Auster)

parašė Paul Auster • 1994

An orphan follows a stranger to a Kansas farm for one impossible lesson: how to fly.

3.95

16 000+

🪶 American Magical Realism 🧒 Orphan Protagonist 🏠 Found Family ✨ Child Prodigy 🎪 Stage Performance

Mr. Vértigo (Biblioteca Paul Auster)

An orphan follows a stranger to a Kansas farm for one impossible lesson: how to fly.

parašė Paul Auster 1994 348 puslapiai

3.95

16 000+ įvertinimai

🪶 American Magical Realism 🧒 Orphan Protagonist 🏠 Found Family ✨ Child Prodigy 🎪 Stage Performance

In the Country of Last Things. by Paul Auster

parašė Paul Auster • 1987

Anna searches a nameless, crumbling city for her brother while hunger and forgetting consume all.

3.91

16 000+

✉️ Epistolary Dystopia 🏚️ Collapsing City 🤝 Found Family 💀 Death Cults 🍂 Elegiac Dystopia

In the Country of Last Things. by Paul Auster

Anna searches a nameless, crumbling city for her brother while hunger and forgetting consume all.

parašė Paul Auster 1987

3.91

16 000+ įvertinimai

✉️ Epistolary Dystopia 🏚️ Collapsing City 🤝 Found Family 💀 Death Cults 🍂 Elegiac Dystopia

[The Music of Chance] [By

parašė Paul Auster • 1990

A poker loss traps a drifter building a stone wall to buy back his freedom.

3.93

13 000+

🖤 Existential Fiction 🏰 Kafkaesque Nightmare 🚗 Aimless Road Trip 💔 Doomed Friendship 🔒 Prison Without Bars

[The Music of Chance] [By

A poker loss traps a drifter building a stone wall to buy back his freedom.

parašė Paul Auster 1990

3.93

13 000+ įvertinimai

🖤 Existential Fiction 🏰 Kafkaesque Nightmare 🚗 Aimless Road Trip 💔 Doomed Friendship 🔒 Prison Without Bars

Travels in the Scriptorium

parašė Paul Auster • 2007

An amnesiac wakes in a labeled room and reads a typescript telling his story.

3.26

11 000+

🪞 Metafiction 🧠 Amnesiac Protagonist 📖 Story Within A Story 🚪 Closed Room 👁️ Surveillance

Travels in the Scriptorium

An amnesiac wakes in a labeled room and reads a typescript telling his story.

parašė Paul Auster 2007 145 puslapiai

3.26

11 000+ įvertinimai

🪞 Metafiction 🧠 Amnesiac Protagonist 📖 Story Within A Story 🚪 Closed Room 👁️ Surveillance

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