Brooklyn Follies (eBook)

PAUL AUSTER (Autor)

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2008 | 1. Auflage
320 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-24613-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Auster's bestselling tale of family dynamics past and present from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: 'a literary voice for the ages' (Guardian) '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 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.

Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Sunset Park, The Book of Illusions, Moon Palace and The New York Trilogy. He and Spencer Ostrander collaborated on Bloodbath Nation. In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. His other honours include the Prix Medicis Étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the Screenplay of Smoke, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Burning Boy, and the Carlos Fuentes Prize for his body of work. His novel 4 3 2 1 was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work was translated into more than forty languages. His final novel, Baumgartner, was published in November 2023. He died on 30 April 2024.

Rezensionen

There is an uncharacteristically fairytale tone to the apparent resolution... rattling through this Brooklyn idyll are admonitions of a darker, more sinister world... even as one savours the poignant beauty of its closing pages, which occur in the early morning of September 11 2001, one cannot help being aware that very soon all paradises will be shattered.

It's a dark, deliciously funny novel, so good you never want it to end, with one story layered and overlapping upon another, spiralling off into the most improbable tangents.

This book will make you re-warm to Auster if you thought you had 'done' him, and should win him new admirers on this softer, more sentimental side of the Channel.

no metaphysical writer can make you feel more like you're being read a bedtime tale by a gentle, hangdog uncle... there is still a hint of the magical in the everyday events that he chronicles.

A truly delightful novel that should bring him even more readers... it's all told with great humour and warmth, making a terrific read.

A fascination with apparently random acts that wrench the casual chain from its orderly path pervades Auster's fiction, but what makes it so mysterious and addictive is that the random acts... somehow feel more real and plausible than when the world behaves well... his work has a lightness of touch that gives it resonance beyond just American society... Auster startles the reader into wider reflections at the very instant that he seems to limit his novel to contemporary America.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.9.2008
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseführer
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: American Fiction • books set in New York • Brooklyn • galveston nic pizzolatto • Manhattan Transfer • siri hustvedt the blazing world • the new york trilogy
• ISBN-10: 0-571-24613-3 / 0571246133
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-24613-7 / 9780571246137