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American writer Paul Auster has died of lung cancer at the age of 77, reports The New York Times. As a writer of novels, essays, memoirs and scripts, he had a major influence on American literature since the end of the last century.
Auster made his breakthrough in the mid-1980s with his New York trilogy, three novels that put a postmodern twist on the detective genre. This is how Auster plays in the first part, Brittle citywith the reliability of its narrator and the identities of characters, including a writer named Paul Auster.
The books also played an important role in the city of New York, Auster’s home town for 50 years. Many of his works reflected his love for the borough of Brooklyn, where he lived.
That was also the case in the film, for example Smoke with Harvey Keitel, for which he wrote the script: “People say you have to travel to see the world, but if you stay in one place and pay close attention, you will see more than enough.”
Rejected seventeen times
Auster was born in 1947 into a Jewish family a stone’s throw from New York, on the other side of the Hudson River in Newark. The cold relationship with his father was the subject of his first book, The fabric of loneliness.
After he was rejected by seventeen publishers, this followed Brittle city and work as Moon Palace, Brooklyn foolishness and 4 3 2 1in which he changes the course of his protagonist’s life four times.
He published the essay last year Bloodbath nation about American gun violence and the novel Baumgartner.
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