Paul Auster, magician of the surprising and probability | EUROtoday

“When words fail you, you dissolve into an image of nothingness. You disappear.” Paul Auster He wrote this sentence earlier than he was 20 years outdated and printed it shortly after in a e book that has now been greater than half a century since its publication in 1967: Notes from a workbook. Deca Austerremembering this textual content, who had not modified his thoughts.

The author from Newark (New Jersey), one of many major American storytellers of latest a long time, additionally a screenwriter, and a poet, and a movie director, died this Tuesday evening in New York on the age of 77 as a result of deadly persistence of lung most cancers. He died a number of weeks after publishing his final novel in Spain, Baumgartnerthe literary testomony of fifty years of craft in letters.

The roaming of Paul Auster in literature it’s glorious. In his approach, he carried the path of a author with an excessive and hooligan drive. From the primary try of the 12-year-old boy, as he remembered, when he started to put in writing pushed by the books he learn within the library of considered one of his kids, to the younger man who enters Columbia University to check French, Italian and English literature. He needed to show every little thing into literature.

It was 1965 and he remained within the school rooms till 1970. He started to translate French poems and, alongside the way in which, he started to put in writing them. He gathered contained in the energetic precept of a well-supported progressive ideology. Just in case, in '70 he put the cigarette ember within the route of Paris and He went to France to flee the call-up for the Vietnam War.

The years in Paris – 5 – have been greater than a provocative slogan. There he set his mental progress spurt. He translated Andr Breton, Henri Michaux, Mallarm, Dupin… He discovered refuge for a time in a maid's room. He maintained a friendship with a prostitute who taught him to learn Baudelaire's poetry from one other aspect.he smoked Gitanes (later he modified them in favor of a Dutch model with Sumatran tobacco).

Paris was his poor and completely satisfied man's celebration. He did not cross the doorway examination on the Institut des hautes tudes cinmatographiques the place he needed to check screenwriting and movie route. When the cash ran out he did what he may to assist himself. Work of catch up in a tankerhe wrote silent movie scripts, he collaborated with the magazines he may, he did a memorable interview with the Jewish poet Edmond Jabs.

In 1974 he printed his first e book of poems, Unearth [Desenterrado]. That 12 months he married the author Lydia Daviswhom he divorced in 1978 to marry the narrator and essayist Siri Hustvesdt (additionally Princess of Asturias Award for Literature). She warned a 12 months and a half in the past of the most cancers that surrounded Auster.

But we’re in 1978. Fortune prolonged her hand to Paul Auster a 12 months later. When his father died, he obtained an inheritance that allowed him to dedicate himself totally to literature, with out suffocation. I took good benefit of that air circulation. And he returned to the US.

He settles in New York. She chooses the neighborhood of Brooklyn as a lair for the author she got down to be. And she stands sturdy in a brownstone of Park Slope which turns right into a secular cathedral. From there he may illuminate the story by lighting a match. “The world is in my head. My body is in the world”. (This additionally belongs to Notes for a workbook). In this home with traces of legend he died Paul Austeraccompanied by Siri Hustvedtfrom his daughter Sophie, from some mates.

It is the legendary place the place the The New York Trilogy (1985-1986), divided into three titles: Crystal City, Ghosts y The closed room. A strong work the place he crosses the manners of a detective novel, meta-literature and bursts of existentialism that he established for himself in his years in Paris.

Before, in 1982, he had printed the primary of his fiction books, The invention of lonelinessthe place he explains the tough relationship he had along with his father. Paul Auster Here he shows the unusual grace of his writing, which reveals a rare expertise for stringing collectively tales that fall into writing like a primary urgent of the weird.

The elegant prose, the exact dialogues with a really distinctive introspective capability, the play of dualitiesthe problem to narrative conventions, the way in which the story adjustments as it’s advised, the fragmented narrative and the change in fact from e book to e book, with that figuring out music and opposite to that of others It was himself.

The New York Trilogy made room for Paul Auster in the popular place of North American literature of the 80s. They have been the loopy years of American Psycho, by Bret Easton Ellis. But Auster I got here to inform one thing else: tales of arduous or fragile individuals, made to face up to inclemencies of a extra home, extra human nature. His writing thus turned extra conscious of strangeness, extra energy of labyrinth. He completed the last decade of the 80s with two extra novels: The land of final issues (1987) y moon, S Palace (1989).

The 90s have been a kingdom of Paul Auster. In these years he explored one of the crucial private assets of his work, blurring the bounds between fiction and actuality. Sometimes it fuels excessive confusion within the reader. An incredible confusion. It's effective. It is the hallmark of the home. Although there have been those that additionally precipitated a rash. These are the years of novels like The music of probability (1990), Leviatn (1992) o Tombuct (1999).

And, in between, the cinema. Now sure. Cinema once more.

Because in 1995 he offered a movie filled with audacity: Smoke, of which he’s the screenwriter and which stars Harvey Keitel. The director is Wayne Wang and he tells the considerably ascetic story of the proprietor of a tobacconist on a nook in a neighborhood in New York the place he passes by. a row of lonely characters whose lives appear marked by probability and reluctance. Afterwards he labored on different items with roughly success: Blue within the face (1995), Lulu within the bridge (1998) o The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007).

Paul Auster He processes issues with a shrewd mixture of different individuals's tales and his personal experiences. Writing requires dedication and renunciation. From this situation he made life and future. He made use of all of the registers that fiction permits. And within the 2000s he reached new heights with titles like The e book of illusions (2002), Brooklyn Follies (2005) y A person at the hours of darkness (2008). It can also be the time of rehearsals gathered in Experiments with fact (2001), a rare title that at present matches effectively on this complicated and turbulent current, however in fact they’re texts wherein Auster displays on the act and artwork of writing, a type of instruction handbook for his personal approach of being in literature.

Over the years, readers of Paul Auster They have found that every of their books is a part of a singular and sophisticated work, a puzzle piece of literature and life, of actuality and fiction. Because his novels, in the end, embrace the great irruptions of the surprising and spectacular crossings of the traces of future.. There can also be one other sturdy narrative: A person at the hours of darkness (2008).

And there’s additionally the sport. The spherical journey from one theme to a different, of characters that seem and disappear, of themes that come and go, of a capability for clever recreation. In Journeys by way of the Scriptorium, Auster He stated goodbye to a few of his personal characters, to these ghosts that had crossed a few of his earlier novels. Because writing is that very same factor: being conscious that literature (higher with expertise) is likely one of the most emphatic types of sovereignty, of the train of freedom.

And since life must also be lived from the place it’s uncomfortable, in 2020 he promoted an affiliation of writers that opposed the insurance policies of the then US president Donald Trump.whom (naturally) he held chargeable for a part of the issues generated by the emotional and social fracture induced in North American society.

Auster He printed another novel earlier than withdrawing on account of sickness. It was 2017: 4 3 2 1. Seven years of silence had handed in fiction. Something unusual in a author so agile by commerce. In that point away from novels he handled intimate texts, reminiscent of these of winter diary o Inside report.

In 4 3 2 1 returned to childhood. To yours. And she needed to see inside the method of a person from the second he utters his first sentences till he reaches the world of adults by age. Almost 1,000 pages. An uncommon e book within the canon of this creatornearer now to the prose of shut, with out paradox, I unfold 4 potential lives for the existence of the identical man.

And the illness arrived. But earlier than, the author skilled a double tragedy: the demise of his first son, Daniel, on account of an overdosetwo weeks after being charged with involuntary manslaughter for the demise of his 10-month-old daughter, a sufferer of drug poisoning.

Auster secluded himself in Slope Park. And, sure, the tough prognosis of the lung.

During the months of therapy he labored on what’s his literary testomony, Baumgartner (2024), printed by Seix Barral (all of his earlier novels in Spanish have been offered by Anagrama). This is a novel that takes up the corpus novelistic by The New York Trilogyhowever the place there are additionally the gliding flights round demise that result in one other novel of their very own, Journeys by way of the Scriptorium. It is the distillation of half a century within the happiness of professing letters. The Wise Man's Book. From the considerable and aware author of the dance of the top. Of his life ending. A e book of successive vibrations which can be the lengthy epitaph. The whole elega. The summa of a life aware that we’re at all times the time we’ve got left.

Paul Auster He has died in Brooklyn, New York, on the age of 77. He constructed a literary temple. A secular church to shelter so many trustworthy. Worlds which can be the entire world with a handful of formidable tales. Stories which can be additionally us, as a result of we’re all literature with out norms. Chance or hope. The confusion and the music. Knowing how one can write it’s the conquest. I guessed it proper: “When words fail you, you dissolve into an image of nothingness. You disappear.”