Bücher von Paul Auster

One day in 1990 on the Wisconsin highway, a bomb goes off in the hand of a man. But somebody knows who he was, and with the FBI closely on his heels, Peter Aaron decides to tell his story, to give his version, before history establishes its unfinished truths and falsities for what really happened.

A New York Times BestsellerFrom the bestselling author of Invisible and The New York Trilogy comes a new novel set during the 2008 economic collapse. Sunset Park opens with twenty-eight-year-old Miles Heller trashing out foreclosed houses in Florida, the latest stop in his flight across the country. When Miles falls in love with Pilar Sanchez, he finds himself fleeing once again, going back to New York, where his family still lives, and into an abandoned house of young squatters in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Woven together from various points of view-that of Miles's father, an independent book publisher trying to stay afloat, Miles's mother, a celebrated actress preparing her return to the New York stage, and the various men and women who live in the house-"Auster seems to carry all of humanity inside him" (Jan Stuart, The Boston Globe).

Brooklyn - Eine literarische Liebeserklärung.

Die schillernde Welt des Paul Auster: ein Professor, eine mysteriöse Frau und ein Moment des Glücklichseins.Professor Zimmer, bekannt aus «Mond über Manhattan», ist ein gebrochener Mann, seit seine Frau und seine Kinder bei einem Flugzeugabsturz starben. Nur die Arbeit an einem Buch über einen 1929 verschollenen Stummfilmkomiker namens Hector Mann erhält ihn am Leben. Dann geschieht Seltsames: Manns verloren ge­glaubte Filme tauchen auf. Und eines Abends steht eine attraktive Brünette mit einem Revolver vor Zimmers Haustür.«Klüger kann Kino im Kopf nicht sein, kurzweiliger auch nicht.» Brigitte

Eine literarische PokerpartieJim Nashe, Feuerwehrmann aus Boston, ist vom Pech verfolgt: Seine Frau hat ihn verlassen, die Tochter musste er zu Verwandten geben. Dann stirbt sein Vater; Nashe erbt 200¿000 Dollar. Kurz entschlossen verabschiedet er sich von seinem bisherigen Leben und kauft ein Auto. Eine ziellose Fahrt beginnt. Als das Geld zur Neige geht, liest Nashe einen Anhalter auf, Jack Pozzi, einen bankrotten Zocker. Beide haben nichts zu verlieren. Beide sind bereit, alles zu riskieren ...«Paul Auster, ein Nachfahre Herman Melvilles, versteht es meisterlich, seine Leser zu fesseln und zu irritieren. Unmerklich überschreitet der Autor immer wieder die Grenze zwischen dem All­täglichen, (scheinbar) Normalen zum Unwahrscheinlichen.» Der Tagesspiegel

Der Schriftsteller Sidney Orr ist nach einem Unfall auf dem Weg der Genesung. Als er ein wundervolles blaues Notizbuch kauft, verschwindet seine Schreibhemmung. Die Geschichten fliegen ihm nur so zu. Eine gebiert die andere, bis ihm dämmert: Sie führen immer häufiger in ausweglose Situationen. Wie sein Leben. Seine Frau verschließt sich vor ihm und hütet ein Geheimnis. Was ist da im Spiel? Zufall? Magie?

This is a 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.

Mr. Bones, the heroic dog of Paul Auster's astonishing book, is the sidekick and confidant of Willy G. Christmas, a brilliant and troubled homeless man from Brooklyn. As Willy's body slowly expires, he sets off with Mr. Bones for Baltimore in search of his high-school English teacher and a new home for his companion. Mr. Bones is our witness during their journey, and out of his thoughts Paul Auster has spun one of the richest, most compelling tales in recent American fiction.

A brilliant, devastating tale about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us.

A Picador Paperback OriginalA new movie written and directed by Paul Auster, starring David Thewlis, Irene Jacob, Michael Imperioli, and Sophie Auster. From The New York Trilogy to The Book of Illusions and Travels in the Scriptorium, Paul Auster is one of America's most spectacularly inventive novelists. Smoke, Blue in the Face, and Lulu on the Bridge established him as an award-winning filmmaker. The Inner Life of Martin Frost brings together his talents as a novelist and filmmaker with a work that is tender, moving, and funny.Searching for solitude, the writer Martin Frost borrows a friend's country house. Waking up one morning, he is shocked to find a nearly naked young woman beside him in bed. She also has a key to the house and claims to be the owner's niece. Martin's initial annoyance at Claire's intrusion is rapidly forgotten as he falls passionately in love with her. Even when it is revealed that Claire is not who she claims to be, their idyllic passion continues--until she suddenly falls ill.The Inner Life of Martin Frost is based on an imaginary film that appears in his novel The Book of Illusions. Unlike the fictional Hector Spelling's "lost" 1946 black and white film of the same title, Auster's luminous celebration of the mysteries of love, art, and the imagination will be released in 2007.

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.Determining that he is locked in, the man--identified only as Mr. Blank--begins reading a manuscript he finds on the desk, the story of another prisoner, set in an unfamiliar, alternate world. As the day passes, various characters call on Mr. Blank in his cell, and each brings frustrating hints of his forgotten identity and his past.Both chilling and poignant, Travels in the Scriptorium is vintage Paul 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 Mr. Blank, his world is not so different from our own.

From The New York Trilogy to The Book of Illusions, Paul Auster's novels have earned him a reputation as "one of American's most spectacularly inventive writers." Here, published together for the first time, are the screenplays of the three films he made in the 1990s.Smoke (starring Harvey Keitel, William Hurt, Forest Whitaker, and Stockard Channing) tells the story of a novelist, a cigar store manager, and a black teenager who unexpectedly cross paths and end up changing each other's lives in indelible ways.Set in contemporary Brooklyn, Smoke directly inspired Blue in the Face, a largely improvised comedy shot in a total of six days. A film unlike any other it stars Harvey Keitel, with featured performances by Roseanne, Lily Tomlin, Lou Reed, and Michael J. Fox.Lulu on the Bridge (Auster's solo directorial debut, again starring Harvey Keitel, with Mira Sorvino, Willem Dafoe, and Vanessa Redgrave) opens with the accidental shooting of jazz musician Izzy Maurer during a performance in a New York club. Izzy is then led on a journey into the strange and sometimes frightening labyrinth of his soul. Both thriller and fairy tale, Lulu on the Bridge is above all a story about the redemptive powers of love.