Author of thirty books including poetry, essays, film scripts and memoirs, in January he published “A country bathed in blood.”
While undergoing cancer treatment, the American writer Paul Auster just published “Baumgartner”a novel of barely 200 pages that condenses a large part of its narrative to tell the life of an emeritus professor of Philosophy at Princeton University who, in some sections, presents himself as the author’s alter ego.
With the echoes of phenomenology that his wife studied Siri Hustvedtthe legacy of Philip Roth and the recreations of EL DoctorowAuster articulates in his new novel – which will arrive in Argentina published by Planeta in May 2024 – a story in which the author and the character merge, it was reported.
“It’s a tender and miraculous little book,” Hustvedt said in September about the latest text published by Faber, in a post on his Instagram account in which he confided that the author of “Leviathan” and “The Invention of Solitude” was still your cancer treatment. “We have not yet reached the sign that marks the limit of the country: it is leaving Cancerland,” which is how Hustvedt defines this territory where cancer patients live. It is, she said, a country “bigger than he had imagined.”
What Paul Auster’s new novel is about
The novel tells of Baumgartner’s life, defined by his deep and abiding love for his wife, Anna, who died in a swimming accident nine years earlier. The 71-year-old protagonist continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel unfolds sinuously in spirals of memory and reminiscence, outlined in episodes spanning from 1968, when Sy Baumgartner and Anna meet as broke students who work and write. in New York, through their passionate relationship.
“Rich in compassion, wit, and Auster’s keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transitory moments of everyday life, Baumgartner asks: Why do we remember certain moments and forget others? In one of his most luminous works and his first novel from the tour de force ‘4 3 2 1’, Paul Auster captures several lives,” the publisher proposes from the back cover of the book.
Author of thirty books including poetry, essays, film scripts and memoirs, in January he published “A country bathed in blood”a book in which the narrative device is put at the service of addressing one of the fundamental phenomena of contemporary North American society: the Thanatic culture around pistols and rifles that its compatriots share.
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