Paul Auster (41 kníh)
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Paul Auster Report from the Interior ENFrom his baby's-eye view of the man in the moon to his childhood worship of the movie cowboy Buster Crabbe to the composition of his first poem at the age of nine to his dawning awareness of the injustices of American life, Report from the Interior charts Auster's moral, political and intellectual journey as he inches his way toward adulthood through the post-war fifties and into the turbulent 1960s. Auster evokes…
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Paul Auster Sunset Park ENIn the sprawling flatlands of Florida, 28-year-old Miles is photographing the last lingering traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclosure. Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, a situation that caused him to flee his father and step-mother in New York 7 years ago. What keeps him in Florida is his relationship with a teenage high…
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Paul Auster Sunset Park ENTwenty-eight-year-old Miles is haunted by guilt for having inadvertently caused the death of his step-brother, an incident that caused him to flee New York seven years previously. Now he lives in Florida, photographing the last traces of families who have abandoned their houses due to debt or foreclousure during the banking crisis.
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Paul Auster Sunset parkMiles Heller je mladý človek bez ambícií, sužovaný pocitom viny za smrť nevlastného brata, už sedem rokov žijúci v dobrovoľnom exile bez kontaktu s rodinou. Zmysel života nachádza až vo vzťahu s výnimočne inteligentnou, no ešte neplnoletou Pilar Sanchezovou. Keď však hrozí, že jej rodina ich vzťah oznámi polícii, Miles je nútený ukončiť svoj exil a vrátiť sa do rodného New Yorku. Jeho domovom sa stáva opustený dom v…
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Paul Auster The Book of Illusions ENOne man's obsession with the mysterious life of a silent film star takes him on a journey into a shadow-world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love. After losing his wife and young sons in a plane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in grief. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann, and remembers how to laugh...Mann was a…
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Paul Auster The Book of Illusions ENOne man's obsession with the mysterious life of a silent film star takes him on a journey into a shadow-world of lies, illusions, and unexpected love. After losing his wife and young sons in a plane crash, Vermont professor David Zimmer spends his waking hours mired in grief. Then, watching television one night, he stumbles upon a lost film by silent comedian Hector Mann, and remembers how to laugh...
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Paul Auster The Brooklyn Follies ENNathan and Tom are 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. Matters change when Lucy, a little girl who refuses to speak, comes into their lives...
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Paul Auster The Brooklyn Follies ENNathan and Tom are 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. Matters change when Lucy, a little girl who refuses to speak, comes into their lives...
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Paul Auster The Invention of Solitude ENOne day there is life . . . and then, suddenly, it happens there is death. So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. The first section, 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', reveals Auster's memories and feelings after the death of his father. In 'The Book of Memory' the perspective shifts to Auster's role as a father. The narrator, 'A', contemplates his separation from his son, his dying…
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Paul Auster The New York Trilogy ENThe 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.…
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Paul Auster The New York trilogy ENCITY OF GLASS As a result of a strange phone call in the middle of the night, Quinn, a writer of detective stories, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than any he might have written. GHOSTS Blue, a student of Brown, has been hired by White to spy on Btack. From a window of a rented room on Orange Street, Blue keeps watch on his subject, who is across the street, staring out of his window. THE LOCKED…
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Paul Auster The New York Trilogy ENPaul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room - haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.City of Glass - As a result of a strange phone call in the middle of the night, Quinn, a writer of detective stories, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than any he might hace writtenGhostsBlue, a…
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Paul Auster Toulky skriptoriem CZRomán Paula Austera z roku 2006 je zvláštní, tajuplná próza. Hlavní hrdina pan Blank se probouzí v poloprázdné místnosti, neví, kdo je, ani to, proč je zde. Vše se odehrává v uzavřeném prostoru, do něhož sice z vnějšího světa postupem času vstupují různé osoby a jejich ne zcela dořečené příběhy, avšak zdá se, že tyto návštěvy spíše ještě prohlubují uzavřenost světa, v němž se pan Blank nevysvětlitelně ocitl a ve…
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Paul Auster V krajině posledních věcí CZRomán amerického spisovatele Paula Austera, vydaný poprvé v roce 1987, patří žánrově mezi tzv. antiutopie. Formou dopisu, který píše mladá žena své kamarádce z dětství, uvádí čtenáře do bezútěšné budoucnosti života v rozkládajícím se městě, kde platí zákon silnějšího a policejní represe. Intrastruktura ani průmysl nefungují, nic se nevyrábí, lidé se živí sbíráním odpadků, okrádáním mrtvol nebo páchají hromadné…
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Paul Auster Zimný denníkAmerický spisovateľ Paul Auster vo svojej najnovšej knižke rekapituluje svoj život. Výsledkom však nie sú nudné memoáre, ale svieže dielko, v ktorom cítiť rozkoš z rozprávania. Auster v tejto spomienkovej mozaike spája veci každodenné i zlomové, bizarné i banálne, smiešne i vážne. Úplne otvorene píše o svojich prvých erotických zážitkoch, o neuveriteľných historkách z pobytu v Paríži, o tvorivej kríze, o…
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