Paul Auster (b. 1947) is one of the most critically acclaimed and
intensely studied authors in America today. His varied career as a
novelist, poet, translator, and filmmaker has attracted scholarly
scrutiny from a variety of critical perspectives. The steadily
rising arc of his large readership has made him something of a
popular culture figure with many appearances in print interviews,
as well as on television, the radio, and the internet. Auster's
best-known novel may be his first, City of Glass (1985), a grim and
intellectually puzzling mystery that belies its surface image as a
detective novel and goes on to become a profound meditation on
transience and mortality, the inadequacies of language, and
isolation. Fifteen more novels have followed since then, including
The Music of Chance, Moon Palace, The Book of Illusions, and The
Brooklyn Follies. He has, in the words of one critic, "given the
phrase 'experimental fiction' a good name" by fashioning bona fide
literary works with all the rigor and intellect demanded of the
contemporary avant-garde. This volume-the first of its kind on
Auster-will be useful to both scholars and students for the
penetrating self-analysis and the wide range of biographical
information and critical commentary it contains. Conversations with
Paul Auster covers all of Auster's oeuvre, from The New York
Trilogy of which City of Glass is a component to Sunset Park
(2010), along with his screenplays for Smoke (1995) and Blue in the
Face (1996). Within, Auster nimbly discusses his poetry, memoir,
nonfiction, translations, and film directing.
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