Paul Auster, a life in images
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
