COLLECTED PROSE: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS, TRUE STORIES, CRITICAL ESSAYS, PREFACES AND COLLABORATIONS WITH ARTISTS. - Hardcover

Auster, Paul.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571218474 ISBN 13: 9780571218479

Publisher: FABER., 2003

Synopsis

From the author of "The New York Trilogy", "Moon Palace" and "The Book of Illusions", comes a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces and occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers. Ranging in subject from Walter Raleigh to Kafka; Hawthorne to high-wire artist Philippe Petit; conceptual artist Sophie Calle to his own typewriter; and The World Trade Center catastrophe to his beloved New York City itself, Auster displays his customary flair, wit and insight.

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An essential collection from one of the finest thinkers and stylists in contemporary letters.

The celebrated author of The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions, and Oracle Night presents here a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces, true stories, autobiographical writings, and collaborations with artists, as well as occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers, including The Invention of Solitude his “breathtaking memoir.” (Financial Times Magazine London)

Ranging in subject from Sir Walter Raleigh to Kafka, Nathaniel Hawthorne to the high-wire artist Philippe Petit, conceptual artist Sophie Calle to Auster’s own typewriter, the World Trade Center catastrophe to his beloved New York City itself, Collected Prose records the passions and insights of a writer who “will be remembered as one of the great writers of our time” (San Francisco Chronicle).

“Auster’s Collected Prose provides a fascinating long-exposure snapshot of a writer’s private and abiding obsessions and touchstones as he oscillates between the worlds of his life and art.”--The Times (London)

“He is a remarkable writer whose work needs to be read in totality.”--The Sunday Herald (Scotland)

“One of America’s leading novelists...The literary essays and prefaces in this collection are elegant and accessible.... Much of what is offered here displays his warmth, democratic instincts, and human concerns.”--The Daily Telegraph (London)

“Auster’s informed enthusiasms, especially for European modernism and aspects of the avant-garde, make him a passionate, intelligent, and stimulating commentator. He writes acutely about the dilemmas which inform serious artistic decisions. The hospitable, generous pieces make one want to go immediately to the writers he discusses.”--The Observer (London)

Paul Auster is the author of eleven novels, most recently Oracle Night. His previous two novels, The Book of Illusions and Timbuktu, were national bestsellers. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

About the Author

Paul Auster is the best-selling author of Invisible, Moon Palace, Mr Vertigo, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Medicis Etranger for Leviathan. He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

About this edition

• Publisher: FABER.
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0571218474
• ISBN 13: 9780571218479
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 450