The novelist, author of the best-selling ‘A Gentleman in Moscow,’ recently published a book of short stories titled ‘Table for Two’
Like dreams, moments of synchronicity guide us on the decisions we need to make
New York City was a fundamental character in the work of the American writer, whose plots played with the idea of chance and spoke of love and friendship
The writer died on Tuesday in New York at the age of 77 after a battle with lung cancer. His death comes a few months after publishing ‘Baumgartner,’ the novel in which he reviews five decades of writing and which constitutes his literary testament. He was internationally acclaimed for his literature and for his incursions into cinema, such as the film ‘Smoke,’ with Harvey Keitel in the leading role. Author of the acclaimed ‘The New York Trilogy’ and ‘4321,’ the charismatic writer and unofficial patron of his adopted neighborhood, Brooklyn, had received numerous awards during his lifetime, although the Nobel Prize always eluded him
In his new novel, Paul Auster maintains his faith in fiction and love despite living – as he says – in ‘Cancerland’
‘Baumgartner’ reads like a distilled mix of everything that the author of ‘New York Trilogy’ has ever written
