Bøger af Paul Auster

New York Trilogien er en samlet udgave af Paul Austers tre romaner By af glas, Genfærd og Det aflåste værelse, der udgør et tematisk katalog med New York som baggrund."New York var et uudtømmeligt rum, en labyrint af endeløse skridt, og uanset hvor langt han gik, uanset hvor fortrolig han blev med sit kvarter og dets gader, havde han altid fornemmelsen af at fare vild. Ikke blot fare vild i byen, men også i sig selv...".

Det hele begynder med en forfatters dilemma: The New York Times har opfordret ham til at skrive en novelle, der skal trykkes i avisen julemorgen. Han siger ja til jobbet, men han har et problem: Hvordan skriver man en usentimental julefortælling?Han bekender sig til sin ven i den lokale cigarforretning, en farverig figur ved navn Auggie Wren, som kvitterer med en ukonventionel historie om en forsvundet tegnebog, en blind kvinde og en julemiddag. Alt vendes på hovedet. Hvad betyder det at stjæle? Hvad betyder det at give? Hvad er løgn? Hvad er sandhed?Auggie Wrens julefortælling blev første gang trykt i The New York Times og er siden blevet til filmen Smoke.

"Seymour Baumgartner føler stadig, elsker stadig, begærer stadig, vil stadig leve, men i sit inderste indre er han død. Det har han vidst i ti år, og i ti år har han gjort sit absolut ypperste for ikke at vide det."’Baumgartner’ er en roman om livet efter den store kærlighed.Paul Auster (f. 1947) er forfatter til adskillige internationalt anerkendte bøger, bl.a. "New York Trilogien", "Sunset Park", "Illusionernes bog" og "4 3 2 1". Hans værker er oversat til mere end 40 sprog.

Samtaler med fremmede er en samling af tekster af den amerikanske forfatter Paul Auster, skrevet og samlet fra de seneste halvtreds år. De 44 tekster giver et bredt og mangefacetteret billede af Paul Auster, hans tanker og reflektioner over en bred vifte af emner: korte filosofiske meditationer, politiske tekster, der berører emner som hjemløshed, 9/11, og sammenhængen mellem fodbold og krig samt tekster om hans lange rejse med den højt elskede skrivemaskine. Samtaler med fremmede er en samling tekster med ekstrem spændvidde, højt til loftet og stor menneskelighed, hvilket gør den til en vigtig bog af en af de helt store amerikanske forfattere.? - The Spectator

Three stories on the nature of identity. In the first a detective writer is drawn into a curious and baffling investigation, in the second a man is set up in an apartment to spy on someone, and the third concerns the disappearance of a man whose childhood friend is left as his literary executor.

'It was the summer that men first walked on the moon. I was very young back then, but did not believe there would ever be a future. I wanted to live dangerously, to push myself as far as I could go, and then see what happened when I got there.'So begins the mesmerising narrative of Marco Stanley Fogg - orphan, child of the 1960s, a quester by nature. Moon Palace is his story - a novel that spans three generations, from the early years of this century to the first lunar landings, and moves from the canyons of Manhattan to the cruelly beautiful landscape of the American West. Filled with suspense, unlikely coincidences, wrenching tragedies and marvellous flights of lyricism and erudition, the novel carries the reader effortlessly along with Marco's search - for love, for his unknown father, and for the key to the elusive riddle of his origins and his fate. 'Clever: very. Surprising: always - Auster is a master.' The Times

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017On March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born.

As autobiography, Brainard's method was brilliantly simple: to set down specific memories ('everything is interesting, sooner or later') as they rose to the surface of his consciousness, each prefaced by the refrain 'I remember.'

'It was a wrong number that started it . 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 language.

Talking to Strangers is a freshly curated collection of prose, spanning fifty years of work and including famous as well as never-before-published early writings, from 2018 Man Booker Prize-finalist Paul Auster.Beginning with a short philosophical meditation written when he was twenty and concluding with nine political pieces that take on such issues as homelessness, 9/11, and the link between soccer and war, the 44 pieces gathered in this volume offer a wide-ranging view of celebrated novelist Paul Auster's thoughts on a multitude of classic and contemporary writers, the high-wire exploits of Philippe Petit, how to improve life in New York City (in collaboration with visual artist Sophie Calle), and the long road he has traveled with his beloved manual typewriter.While writing for the New York Review of Books and other publications in the mid-1970s, young poet Auster gained recognition as an astute literary critic with essays on Laura Riding, John Ashbery, Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka, Paul Celan, and others. By the late seventies and early eighties, as the poet was transforming himself into a novelist, he maintained an active double life by continuing his work as a translator and editing the groundbreaking anthology, The Random House Book of Twentieth-Century Poetry. His prefaces to some of these books are included in Talking to Strangers, among them a heart-wrenching account of Stéphane Mallarmé's response to the death of his eight-year-old son, Anatole.In recent years, Auster has pushed on with explorations into the work of American artists spanning various periods and disciplines: the notebooks of Nathaniel Hawthorne, the films of Jim Jarmusch, the writings of painter-collagist-illustrator Joe Brainard, and the three-hit shutout thrown by journeyman right-hander Terry Leach of the Mets. Also included here are several rediscovered works that were originally delivered in public: a 1982 lecture on Edgar Allan Poe, a 1999 blast against New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and one of the funniest introductions a poetry reading ever heard in the state of New Jersey.A collection of soaring intelligence and deepest humanity, Talking to Strangers is an essential book by "the most distinguished American writer of [his] generation . . . indeed its only author . . . with any claim to greatness." (The Spectator)

The remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels from the author of 4 3 2 1: A NovelThe New York Review of Books has called Paul Auster's work ';one of the most distinctive niches in contemporary literature.' Moving at the breathless pace of a thriller, this uniquely stylized triology of detective novels begins withCity of Glass,in which Quinn, a mystery writer, receives an ominous phone call in the middle of the night. He's drawn into the streets of New York, onto an elusive case that's more puzzling and more deeply-layered than anything he might have written himself. In Ghosts, Blue, a mentee of Brown, is hired by White to spy on Black from a window on Orange Street. Once Blue starts stalking Black, he finds his subject on a similar mission, as well. In The Locked Room, Fanshawe has disappeared, leaving behind his wife and baby and nothing but a cache of novels, plays, and poems.This Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition includes an introduction from author and professor Luc Sante, as well as a pulp novel-inspired cover from Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic artist of Maus and In the Shadow of No Towers.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust theseries to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-datetranslations by award-winning translators.

'You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else.'In Winter Journal, Paul Auster moves through the events of his life in a series of memories grasped from the point of view of his life now: playing baseball as a teenager; participating in the anti-Vietnam demonstrations at Columbia University; seeking out prostitutes in Paris, almost killing his second wife and child in a car accident; falling in and out of live with his first wife; the 'scalding, epiphanic moment of clarity' in 1978 that set him on a new course as a writer.Winter Journal is a poignant memoir of ageing and memory, written with all the characteristic subtlety, imagination and insight that readers of Paul Auster have come to cherish.'An examination of the emotions of a man growing old . . . this book has much to recommend it, and Auster is unsparingly honest about himself.' Financial Times

'By the time Nashe understood what was happening to him, he was past the point of wanting it to end . . .'Paul Auster fuses Samuel Beckett, Franz Kafka and The Brothers Grimm in this brilliant and unsettling parable. Following the death of his father, Jim Nashe takes to the open road in pursuit of a 'life of freedom'. But as the money runs out he finds that his sense of disillusionment has only been compounded by his year on the road. However, after picking up Pozzi, a hitchhiking gambler, Nashe finds himself drawn into a dangerous game of high-stakes poker with two eccentric and reclusive millionaires. 'A rare experience of contemporary fiction at its most thrilling.' New Statesman

New York i 1947 - privatdetektiven Mr. Blue bliver hyret til en simpel overvågningssag, men inddrages efterhånden i en sindrig og gådefuld menneskejagt.Genfærd er andet bind i New York Trilogien, Paul Austers litterære gennembrud."Det rykker i én, når man læser Auster. Verden er ikke helt den samme, når man er færdig med hans bøger ... Tilsammen udgør disse bøger en enestående læseoplevelse."- Holger Ruppert, BT

Anne Blume leder efter sin forsvundne bror, William, der som journalist er ankommet til Ødelæggelsernes By.I denne Helvedes forgård dør indbyggerne, men erstattes lige så snart af nye folk, sultne og hjemløse, der strømmer ind fra landet blot for at tilslutte sig forskellige dødekulter som Springerne, Løberne eller Attentat-klubberne, hvor enhver kan dø på sin egen individuelle måde. I byens udkant stiger røgen fra krematorierne, kaldet Transformationscentre, mod himlen.I dette inferno, hvor størstedelen af indbyggerne lever på gaderne desperat lænkede til indkøbsvognene med deres få ejendele, møder Anna journalisten Samuel Farr, der ligeledes søger efter William. På trods af alt forelsker Anna og Samuel sig i hinanden.I det sidstes land er en mareridtsagtig fremtidsroman om Anna Blumes rejse til Ødelæggelsernes By, hvorfra ingen kommer tilbage, hvor døden hersker, og børn ikke lader sig føde. Et moderne forsøg på at beskrive helvede, der minder ikke så lidt om nogle af Vestens storbyer."Endnu en gang kan man om Paul Auster sige, at han har skrevet en af sin tids vigtigste amerikanske romaner."- Bo Green Jensen, Weekendavisen

Første roman i New York Trilogien. Paul Austers store gennembrud.;

De to forfattere Paul Auster (USA) og J.M. Coetzee (opr. Sydafrika) mødtes ved et litterært arrangement i Australien og har hen over tre år ført en brevveksling på tværs af kontinenter.Det er blevet til en særdeles indholdsrig 'samtale' spækket med interessante synspunkter omkring valg af livsform, nødvendigheden af at skrive, kærlighedens og venskabets natur, sport, hvad god litteratur kan ...Brevvekslingen giver et vigtigt indblik i de to vægtige forfatteres måde at leve, tænke og skrive på."Brevene er en invitation ind i det operatørrum, vi ikke har adgang til normalt, og samtidig en rapport om alt det i en international forfatters arbejde, der ikke foregår ved tastaturet, nemlig de opslidende rejser, interviews, festivaler."- Weekendavisen

'I was looking for a quiet place to die. Someone recommended Brooklyn, and so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain . . .'So begins Paul Auster's remarkable new novel, The Brooklyn Follies. 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, indeed, from 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 offers them the possibility of redemption. Infused with character, mystery and humour, these lives intertwine and become bound together as Auster brilliantly explores the wider terrain of contemporary America - a crucible of broken dreams and of human folly. 'Auster at the top of his game. This superb novel about human folly turns out to be tremendously wise.' New Statesman

The Book of Illusions, written with breath-taking urgency and precision, plunges the reader into a universe in which the comic and the tragic, the real and the imagined, and the violent and the tender dissolve into one another. One 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 comic genius, in trademark white suit and fluttering black moustache. But one morning in 1929 he walked out of his house and was never heard from again. Zimmer's obsession with Mann drives him to publish a study of his work; whereupon he receives a letter postmarked New Mexico, supposedly written by Mann's wife, and inviting him to visit the great Mann himself. Can Hector Mann be alive? Zimmer cannot decide - until a strange woman appears on his doorstep and makes the decision for him, changing his life forever.'A nearly flawless work . . . Auster will be remembered as one of the great writers of our time.' San Francisco Chronicle 'Auster's elegant, finely calibrated The Book of Illusions is a haunting feat of intellectual gamesmanship.' TheNew York Times

'Six days ago, a man blew himself up by the side of a road in northern Wisconsin ...' In this book, the explosion that detonates the narrative also ends the life of its hero, Benjamin Sachs, and brings two FBI agents to the home of one of Sachs' oldest friends, the writer Peter Aaron. What follows is Aaron's story...

Sinuously 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 course of his life.Three different narrators tell the story, as it travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from New York to Paris and to a remote Caribbean island in a story of unbridled sexual hunger and a relentless quest for justice.With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us to the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, authorship and identity to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers.

Meet Mr Bones, the canine hero of Paul Auster's remarkable novel. Bones is the sidekick of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant but troubled poet-saint from Brooklyn. Together they sally forth across America to Baltimore, Maryland, on one last great adventure, searching for Willy's old teacher, Bea Swanson. Years have passed since Willy last saw his beloved mentor, who used to know him as William Gurevitch, son of Polish war refugees. But is Mrs Swanson still alive? And if not, what will prevent Willy from vanishing into that other world known as Timbuktu? 'In this brilliant novel, Auster writes with economy, precision and the quirky pathos of noir, addressing the pernicious ubiquity of American consumerism, the nature of love and the core riddles of ontology. Above all, though, this is the affecting tale of a special dog's place in the universe of humans and in the fleeting life of a special man.' Publishers Weekly

Chosen by Paul Auster out of the four thousand stories submitted to his radio programme on National Public Radio, these 180 stories provide a wonderful portrait of America in the twentieth century. The requirement for selection was that each of the stories should be true, and each of the writers should not have been previously published. The collection that has emerged provides a richly varied and authentic voice for the American people, whose lives, loves, griefs, regrets, joys and sense of humour are vividly and honestly recounted throughout, and adeptly organised by Auster into themed sections. The section composed of war stories stretches as far back as the Civil War, still the defining moment in American history; while the sequence of 'Meditations' conclude the volume with a true and abiding sense of transcendence. The resultant anthology is both an enduring hymn to the strange everyday of contemporary American life and a masterclass in the art of storytelling.

Paul Austers største, mest hjerteskærende og overbevisende roman. En overvældende og overraskende fortælling om arv og miljø, om kærlighed og livet selv. Den 3. marts 1947 bliver Archibald Isaac Ferguson født på hospitalet i New Jersey. Fra det øjeblik han kommer til verden, tager familiens liv fire samtidige og uafhængige retninger. Hver af de fire versioner af Ferguson bliver tryllebundet af den skønne og mageløse Amy Schneiderman, og hver af de fire Ferguson'er får hver deres egen helt enestående relation til hende. Som læser følger man alle fire i medgang og modgang. Forskellige liv og dog det samme. Paul Austers roman 4 3 2 1 er intet mindre end et mesterværk.

Første bind af Paul Austers New York Trilogien. Udgives i anledning af 25 året for samarbejdet mellem Paul Auster og Forlaget Per Kofod (1987-2012). 25 år - 25 titler af Paul Auster i dansk oversættelse. Anmelderne om By af glas (1987) – første bind i New York Trilogien. ”Årets amerikanske forfatterskab på dansk. En umådelig udspekuleret førstedel af en krimi-trilogi. Auster er både belæst og vindende … afvikler sin mystiske Kaspar Hauser-historie med overlegen sproglig elegance.” Klaus Lynggaard i Aktuelt ”BY AF GLAS er en forunderlig labyrint af en spændingsroman, skrevet af det unge es i amerikansk åndsliv, Paul Auster.” Bo Green Jensen i Weekendavisen ”BY AF GLAS er en af de mest usædvanlige og raffinerede bøger, der er kommet på dansk i år … en sugende intens, nervekriblende bog, en leg og et spil på liv og død. Hold da fast hvor er den stærk!” Poul Borum i Ekstra Bladet