Paul Auster (41 kníh)
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Paul Auster 4321On March 3rd, 1947, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous paths. Four Fergusons will go on to lead four parallel...
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Paul Auster A Life in WordsPaul Auster’s A Life in Words a wide-ranging dialogue between Auster and the Danish professor I. B. Siegumfeldt is a remarkably candid and sharply focused investigation into one writer’s art, craft, and life. It includes many revelations that have never been shared before. This is a book that’s full of surprises, composed of spoken words that sometimes jump off the page like good drama. The conversations between…
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Paul Auster Brooklynské fraškyČo má robiť šesťdesiatročný bývalý poisťovací agent, ktorý sa vyliečil z rakoviny, opustila ho manželka i chuť do života? Nathan Glass to vyrieši svojsky. Odsťahuje sa do Brooklynu, na miesto svojho detstva, kde sa rozhodne pospisovať všetky možné hlúposti, trápnosti a prešľapy, ktorých svedkom sa chtiac-nechtiac stal. Kým pracuje na svojich zápiskoch, vynárajú sa pred ním nové tváre a ich osudy: synovec, ktorý mal…
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Paul Auster Brooklynské panoptikum CZRomán u nás už dobře známého amerického spisovatele Paula Austera je ukázkou autorova vypravěčského umění. Stejně jako v předchozích knihách Paul Auster dovedně spřádá příběhy jednotlivých postav a rychle plynoucí, přesvědčivý děj zároveň obohacuje o další dimenze a souvislosti: do sebe vložené příběhy, exkurzy do literární teorie a historie a esejistické vložky. Tyto momenty ovšem autor zakomponovává do příběhu…
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Paul Auster City of Glass ENChosen as one of the 100 Most Important Comics of the Century, Faber is proud to publish the graphic novel City of Glass for the first time in the UK. As Art Spiegelman explains in his new introduction, David Mazzucchelli and Paul Karasik 'created a strange doppelganger of the original book' and 'a breakthrough work.' Paul Auster's Edgar Award-nominated masterwork has been astonishingly transformed into a new visual…
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Paul Auster Day / Night ENDay / Night brings together two metaphysical novels that mirror each other and are meant to be read in tandem: two men, each confined to a room, one suddenly alert to his existence, the other desperate to escape into sleep. In Travels in the Scriptorium (2007), elderly Mr. Blank wakes in an unfamiliar cell, with no memory of who he is or how he got there. He must use the few objects he finds and the information…
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Paul Auster In the Country of Last Things ENIn this novel Paul Auster offers a haunting picture of a devastated world - a futuristic world - but one which may be seen to shadow our own. Auster has also written The New York Trilogy.
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Paul Auster Invisible ENSinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the…
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Paul Auster Kniha iluzí CZVermontský profesor David Zimmer přišel před půl rokem při leteckém neštěstí o manželku a dva malé syny; od té doby utápí žal a sebelítost v alkoholu. Jednou však v televizi náhodou narazí na krátkou ukázku ze ztracené grotesky komika němé éry Hektora Manna. Ta záhadná postava podnítí jeho zájem a Zimmer se vydá na cestu kolem světa, aby prozkoumal dílo muže, po němž se v roce 1929 slehla zem. Kdo byl Hektor Mann?…
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Paul Auster Kniha ilúziíŽivot univerzitného profesora Davida Zimmera sa po havárii lietadla s jeho manželkou a dvoma synmi zosype. Preruší kontakty s okolitým svetom a jeho zúfalstvo vyústi do depresií a alkoholizmu. Zmenu v živote mu prinesie až nemý film s Hectorom Mannom, ktorý náhodou zhliadne v televízii. Rozhodne sa napísať o tajuplnom hercovi a filmárovi Mannovi knihu a vypátrať príčinu jeho zmiznutia. Intenzívna práca mu pomôže…
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Paul Auster Leviathan ENThe explosion that detonates the narrative of Paul Auster's remarkable novel also ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the home of one of Sachs's oldest friends, the writer Peter Aaron. What follows is Aaron's story, an intricate, subtle and gripping investigation of another man's life in all its richness and complexity.
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Paul Auster Leviathan ENSo begins the story told by Peter Aaron about his best friend, Benjamin Sachs. Sachs had a marriage Aaron envied, an intelligence he admired, a world he shared. And then suddenly, after a near-fatal fall that might or might not have been intentional, Sachs disappeared. Now Aaron must piece together the life that led to Sachs's death. His sole aim is to tell the truth and preserve it, before those who are…
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Paul Auster Leviathan ENThe explosion at the start of this book ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the home of one of Sachs's oldest friends, the writer Peter Aaron. What follows is Aaron's story, an investigation of another man's life.
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Paul Auster Man in the Dark ENAugust Brill, an elderly book critic, lies awake in the dark, unable to sleep. Elsewhere in the house are his daughter, Miriam, and granddaughter, Katya, each with her own reasons for lying awake and watchful in the long Vermont night...
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Paul Auster Man in the Dark ENSeventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident. Plagued by insomnia, he tries to push back thoughts of things he would prefer to forget - his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus - by telling himself stories. He 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…
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Paul Auster Mr Vertigo ENI was twelve years old the first time I walked on water . . .' So begins Mr Vertigo, the story of Walt, an irrepressible orphan from the Mid-West. Under the tutelage of the mesmerising Master Yehudi, Walt is taken back to the mysterious house on the plains to prepare not only for the ability to fly, but also for the stardom that will accompany it.
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Paul Auster Muž ve tmě CZV nejnovějším románu se Paul Auster představuje v takové podobě, na jakou jsme u něj zvyklí - jako výborný vypravěč příběhů, který využívá postupy a prvky pokleslých žánrů. Autor pracuje s motivy detektivního, špionážního, sci-fi, válečného a milostného románu, přičemž příběhy často vkládá do sebe a zároveň nenásilně rozvíjí úvahy o povaze reality a lidských dějin. Základní linii vyprávění tvoří stárnoucí spisovatel…
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Paul Auster Newyorská trilogie CZV trojici příběhů Newyorské trilogie skládá Paul Auster pozoruhodným způsobem hold takzvané drsné škole americké detektivky. Quinn, autor laciných detektivek ve Skleněném městě, se pustí na základě telefonického omylu do vyšetřování zapeklitého případu, který mu brzy přeroste přes hlavu a nakonec mu změní celý život. Ve druhém příběhu - Duchové - si Bílý najme Modrého, žáka Hnědého, aby sledoval Černého. Modrý…
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Paul Auster Oracle Night ENSeveral months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in the Cobble Hill section of Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and bewildering events that threaten to destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality...
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Paul Auster Oracle Night ENSeveral months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, trapped inside a world of eerie premonitions and bewildering events that threaten to destroy his marriage and undermine his faith in reality. Paul Auster's mesmerizing…
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Paul Auster Putovanie v skriptóriuV malej miestnosti s posteľou, písacím stolom a stoličkou (a kde možno je, ale možno nie je šatník) sedí starec. Každý deň sa prebúdza bez jedinej spomienky v hlave, ale s nejasným pocitom viny. Kto je tento starec? Naozaj sa volá pán Blank? V hlave mu pochoduje procesia prízrakov, na stole čakajú akési fotografie a texty. Bude mať dosť času, aby vyriešil záhady, čo ho obklopujú?
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Paul Auster Report from the Interior ENIn the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts...Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within, through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world. From his baby's-eye view of the man in the moon to his childhood…
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