| Product Summary | | Format: CD | | ISBN: 9781400103744 | | Publisher: Tantor Media | | Publish Date: 4/10/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 203960887 | | Item#: R922QG | | Dimensions (in Inches) 5.25H x 5L x 1T |
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| | | An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores over the relics on the desk, examining the circumstances of his confinement and searching his own hazy mind for clues. Both chilling and poignant, Travels in the Scriptorium is vintage Auster: mysterious texts, fluid identities, a hidden past, and, somewhere, an obscure tormentor. And yet, as we discover during one day in the life of the man--identified only as Mr. Blank--his world is not so different from our own.
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A man referred to only as Mr. Blank sits a room with no memory of who he is or why he is there. During the course of the day he receives several visitors, including a doctor, a nurse, and his lawyer, who tells him he is being charged with heinous crimes. Finally, he discovers a strange manuscript that provides a clue to the nature of his existence. Paul Auster uses this minimalist canvass to create a existential allegory with a metafictional twist.
| Praise| "On the centennial year of Samuel Beckett's birth, Auster's new novel nods to the master." "Auster's bleak gamesmanship again reaps its usual spooky, minimalist rewards." - Gregory Kirschling 02/02/2007 |
| Author Bio| Paul Auster | | Auster grew up in Newark, the product of an unhappy, mismatched marriage. As a boy, he was addicted to Mad Magazine and was also a voracious reader. He usually spent his summers working in his uncle Moe's appliance store, but the summer after he graduated from high school he traveled in Europe, working on a novel. After earning his B.A. and M.A. from Columbia University, he returned to Europe, living in France, translating the works of French writers (as well as the North Vietnamese Constitution) and also beginning to publish his own work in American journals. He married a writer, Lydia Davis, with whom he had one child and then divorced. In 1981, he married novelist Siri Hustvedt, with whom he had two children, and in 1985 his first novel, CITY OF GLASS, was published by Sun & Moon Press after 17 rejections--it was the first in the series of three experimental quasi-detective stories now known as THE NEW YORK TRILOGY. Auster has continued to write and publish critically acclaimed fiction and poetry, as well as an autobiography. He has also been involved in filmmaking: his novel THE MUSIC OF CHANCE was made into a movie in 1993, and the films SMOKE and BLUE IN THE FACE, based on his scripts, were released in 1995. |
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