Paul Auster

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Book of Illusions

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Paul Auster. Not an easy writer - lives inter-twining … stories within stories - but a rewarding one. David Zimmer, a Vermont professor, is broken by the loss of his wife and child in a plane crash. His life changes when he stumbles upon a clip from a silent film by comedian Hector Mann, who mysteriously vanished 60 years ago. Zimmer immerses himself in researching Mann's work. Then a new twist and a new quest appear: Mann may still be alive. (321 pages)
Level: A
0571224997

Brooklyn Follies

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A Paul Auster novel — but a gentler, less surreal and more optimistic Paul Auster. Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000, it tells the story of Nathan and Tom, an uncle and nephew double-act. One in remission from lung cancer, divorced, and estranged from his only daughter, the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career, and life in general. Having accidentally ended up in the same Brooklyn neighbourhood, they discover a community teeming with life and passion. When Lucy, a little girl who refuses to speak, comes into their lives there is suddenly a bridge from their pasts that may offer them hope. Their lives intertwine as Auster explores a contemporary America full of broken dreams and of human folly — but with the possibility of redemption. The book ends minutes before the attack on the World Trade Centre but not even that will be able to undo the renewal that we have witnessed. (304 pages)
Level: A

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In the Country of Last Things

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One of Paul Auster’s best novels. A haunting picture of a devastated world — a futuristic world — but one which may seem to shadow our own ... A bleak story of a world of physical and spiritual poverty, but not a world without decency and hope.
Meget grundigt glosehæfte af Erik Nielsen. Gratis lamineret kopiark med detaljerede opgaver medsendes ved køb af 10+ glosehæfter.“Romanen er nok ikke sagen for enhver klasse, men der er spændende diskussionsmuligheder i den, og solidt håndværk i Erik Nielsens gloser og arbejdsspørgsmål.” (MK Gymnasieskolen) (186 standard pages)
Level: A/B.

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In the Country of Last Things Workbook

Glossary and background material. If you buy 10 or more copies of this workbook, we will reduce the price to kr. 10,95 ex. moms when we invoice you!
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Man in the Dark

*NEW IN JULY 2009*

Paul Auster's novel is a book that forces us to confront the blackness of night as well as the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence. Man in the Dark is about the many realities we inhabit. Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget — his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union and a bloody civil war ensued. As the night progresses, Brill's story grows increasingly intense, and what he is so desperately trying to avoid insists on being told. Joined in the early hours by his granddaughter, he gradually opens up to her and recounts the story of his marriage. After she falls asleep, he at last finds the courage to revisit the trauma of Titus's death. (180 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet 2nd/3rd year

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Moon Palace

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The Paul Auster novel. (307 pages)
Level: A/Linjefag
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New York Trilogy

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The three short “postmodern” detective novels that made Paul Auster’s name: (the popular) City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room. (158 + 71 + 136 pages)
Level: A/B.
9780719073977

Paul Auster (Contemporary Writers)

This book provides the first extended analysis of Auster’s essays, poetry, fiction, films and collaborative projects. It explores his key themes of identity; language and writing; metropolitan living and community; and storytelling and illusion. By tracing how Auster's representations of New York and city life have matured from a position of urban nihilism to qualified optimism, the book shows how the variety of forms he works in influences the treatment of his central concerns. The chapters are organised around gradually extending spaces to reflect the way in which Auster’s work broadens its focus, beginning with the poet’s room and finishing with the global metropolis of New York: his home city and often his muse. The book uses Auster’s published and unpublished literary essays to explain the shifts from the dense and introspective poems of the 1970s, through the metropolitan fictions of the 1980s and early 1990s, to the relatively optimistic and critically acclaimed films, and his return to fiction in recent years. Author: Mark Brown. (224 pages)
Contents:  1. Rooms;  2. Streets;  3. Downtown;  4. Out of Town;  5. No Place;  6. The Global Metropolis
Level: Library/Depot/Student's papers
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Paul Auster: Confidential DVD

*NEW IN DECEMBER 2011*

Interview with Paul Auster in which he discusses his work and the themes it explores. In this programme he reflects at length on his career to date and his plans for the future. He speaks of his childhood, baseball, his travels, the influence of the city on his work and the importance that walking holds for him, and he recounts the key moments in his life.  (OBS! En fransk produktion ... men med engelsk lyd!)

Running time: 149 minutes

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Smoke and Blue in the Face

Drama by Paul Auster — NB! This is now a “Print on Demand” title. Smoke is the story of Paul Benjamin, a novelist suffering from writers block — and the violent death of his wife — who is inspired to write again by contact with a young black kid. This volume also includes an interview with Auster about the the making of Smoke and the text of Auster short story on which it was originally based. Also included is Blue in Face. a spontaneous drama in which actors improvise on the basis of scenes and characters from Smoke. (Smoke = 134 pages)
Level: B/A
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Travels in the Scriptorium

An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar room with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores over objects on the desk, examining the circumstances of his confinement and searching his own hazy mind for clues. Determining that he is locked in, the man — identified only as Mr. Blank — begins reading a manuscript he finds on the desk, the story of another prisoner, set in an alternate world the man doesn't recognize. Nevertheless, the pages seem to have been left for him, along with a haunting set of photographs. As the day passes, various characters call on the man in his cell — vaguely familiar people, some who seem to resent him for crimes he can't remember — and each brings frustrating hints of his identity and his past. A middle-aged woman called Anna enters and talks of pills and treatment, but also of love and promises. Will Mr Blank ever have enough time to ever make sense of all these clues? All the while an overhead camera clicks and clicks, recording his movements, and a microphone records every sound in the room. Someone is watching. A chilling and poignant novel, a mystery about responsibility, ageing, and memory, set in a disturbingly familiar world. Author: Paul Auster. (130 pages)
Level: A

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Understanding Paul Auster

*NEW IN DECEMBER 2011*
“Understanding Contemporary American Literature”
This book is a survey of the work of a Brooklyn-born author best known for mixing absurdism and crime fiction. It is a comprehensive companion to the work of a writer who effectively balances a particular combination of Jewish American identity and European sensibility across an impressive breadth of novels, screenplays, essays, and poetry. It views Auster as chiefly concerned with the individual's problematic relationship with language, a theme present from the enigmatic poetry of Auster's early career to the more optimistic imaginings of the films Smoke and Blue in the Face and the novels, The Brooklyn Follies, and Man in the Dark. For Auster language is inherently ethical and communal because, to use language creatively, one must be immersed in the plurality of experience and listen to the voices of others. After 9/11, much of Auster's fiction places even greater importance on sympathetic relations with ordinary individuals and advocates through artistic endeavors the merits of connecting with others. Author: James Peacock. (264 pages)
Level: Gymnasiet / Depot / A Teacher's Resource / SR-opgaver