Paul Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey, on February 3rd, 1947. He is the author of numerous novels, screenplays, and works of non-fiction. His other titles include poet, translator and film director. His latest novel "The Brooklyn Follies", was published in late 2005. He is currently at work on a film project entitled "The Inner Life of Martin Frost". His next novel, "Travels in the Scriptorium" is due to be published in early 2007. He lives in Brooklyn, New York with his wife, the author Siri Hustvedt.
In Oracle Night, Paul Auster returns to one of his favorite themes: writing about writers and the act of writing. Recovering from a severe illness that has left him weak and prone to nosebleeds, struggling novelist Sidney Orr takes the suggestion of his mentor, the acclaimed novelist John Trause, and begins a story about a man who, upon considering a near-death experience as an omen (or excuse), walks out on his wife and begins a new life. Nick Bowen, Orr's protagonist, moves to Kansas City and finds work with a man engaged in creating a sort of catalogue of all known persons from a warehouse filled with phonebooks. Dressed in Goodwill clothing, Nick finds it "fitting to don the wardrobe of a man who has likewise ceased to exist--as if that double negation made the erasure of his past more thorough, more permanent." Grace, however, acts strangely soon after Sidney begins the "novel-within-a-novel" in a mysterious blue notebook.
Auster uses footnotes to provide interesting backstory and develops Sidney's insecurities regarding love and fidelity, but when Sidney hits a patchy spot and writes Bowen into a corner, he (and Auster) shrugs and drops the story. The mystery that seemingly unrelated coincidences may have a causal connection is left unresolved, and Trause's delinquent son shows up to facilitate a hollow, climactic ending. Auster is a gifted writer, to be sure, but once trapped by the inner story, Oracle Night loses steam. --Michael Ferch [via]
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From Barnes & Noble The Barnes & Noble Review With such novels as The Book of Illusions and Timbuktu, Paul Auster has garnered a well-deserved reputation for literary experimentation, philosophical depth, and darkly atmospheric narratives. This time out he ...
評分From Barnes & Noble The Barnes & Noble Review With such novels as The Book of Illusions and Timbuktu, Paul Auster has garnered a well-deserved reputation for literary experimentation, philosophical depth, and darkly atmospheric narratives. This time out he ...
評分From Barnes & Noble The Barnes & Noble Review With such novels as The Book of Illusions and Timbuktu, Paul Auster has garnered a well-deserved reputation for literary experimentation, philosophical depth, and darkly atmospheric narratives. This time out he ...
評分From Barnes & Noble The Barnes & Noble Review With such novels as The Book of Illusions and Timbuktu, Paul Auster has garnered a well-deserved reputation for literary experimentation, philosophical depth, and darkly atmospheric narratives. This time out he ...
評分From Barnes & Noble The Barnes & Noble Review With such novels as The Book of Illusions and Timbuktu, Paul Auster has garnered a well-deserved reputation for literary experimentation, philosophical depth, and darkly atmospheric narratives. This time out he ...
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本以為奧斯特終於要講一個文本套文本的故事,像卡爾維諾那樣,但最後還是落在瞭個人的命運上,很遺憾。再說,對於Jacob這個人物錶現齣來的態度不夠豐滿,因為沒有單純的惡。Sid在寫作中消失的那條綫索,本來可以展開得很好,可惜成瞭一個鋪墊的花招,實在是可惜瞭。
評分本以為奧斯特終於要講一個文本套文本的故事,像卡爾維諾那樣,但最後還是落在瞭個人的命運上,很遺憾。再說,對於Jacob這個人物錶現齣來的態度不夠豐滿,因為沒有單純的惡。Sid在寫作中消失的那條綫索,本來可以展開得很好,可惜成瞭一個鋪墊的花招,實在是可惜瞭。
評分ugh…為什麼我覺得語言和故事都很一般
評分ugh…為什麼我覺得語言和故事都很一般
評分讀過的第二本Paul Auster. 少數我能在火車和飛機上看下去的書之一,幾乎不需要任何self-motivation就可以走進故事,但故事本身有些散亂。語言太棒瞭。
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