MAN IN THE DARK - PAUL AUSTER

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Editorial	FABER & FABER
Edad	Adultos
Idioma	Inglés Internacional
Autor	AUSTER PAUL
ISBN	9780571240777
Peso ( kg )	0,153
Tipo	Soporte Físico
Año de edición	2009
Formato	TAPA RUSTICA
Sinopsis	MAN IN THE DARK Auster's haunting exploration of war in a post 9 11 world from the author of contemporary classic The New York Trilogy: 'a literary voice for the ages' Guardian 'I am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness.' Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would rather forget - his wife's recent death and the horrific murder, in Iraq, of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus. Brill, a retired book critic, imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the Twin Towers did not fall on 9 11, and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union and a bloody civil war ensued. As the night progresses, Brill's story grows increasingly intense, and what he is so desperately trying to avoid insists on being told. Joined in the early hours by his granddaughter, he gradually opens up to her and recounts another hidden story, this time of his own marriage. After she falls asleep, he at last finds the courage to revisit the trauma of Titus's death. Passionate and shocking, political and personal: Man in the Dark is a novel that reflects the consequences of 9 11, that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence. PAUL AUSTER Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Sunset Park, The Book of Illusions, Moon Palace and The New York Trilogy. He and Spencer Ostrander collaborated on Bloodbath Nation. In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. His other honours include the Prix Medicis Étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the Screenplay of Smoke, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Burning Boy, and the Carlos Fuentes Prize for his body of work. His novel 4 3 2 1 was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work was translated into more than forty languages. His final novel, Baumgartner, was published in November 2023. He died on 30 April 2024. Edad recomendada: Adultos. AUSTER PAUL Nueva Jersey , 1947. «Toda vida es inexplicable -escribe Paul Auster-. Por muchos hechos que se cuenten, por muchos datos que se muestren, lo esencial se resiste a ser contado.» Y sin embargo, su condición de narrador quizá pueda explicarse a partir de La invención de la soledad 1982 . El padre de Auster había muerto y atrás quedaban sus traducciones del francés, sus poemas como «puños cerrados», sus obras entre bambalinas como «negro» literario y sus estudios de literatura francesa, italiana e inglesa en la Universidad de Columbia. De su quehacer lírico había nacido una prosa elegante y depurada. La trilogía de Nueva York 1987 fue su obra consagratoria. En ella, el azar lleva a los protagonistas a asumir distintas identidades dentro de una compleja arquitectura narrativa de espejismos metaficcionales, una pesadilla urbana teñida de enfermedad, locura y fracaso. El Palacio de la Luna 1989 y Leviatán 1992 , ganadora del Premio Médicis, son otras de sus obras más destacadas. En 2006 recibió el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras como reconocimiento a la renovación literaria que supuso la unión de las tradiciones norteamericana y europea. Para Auster, las palabras del célebre dramaturgo Peter Brook bien podrían definir la aspiración final de su obra: que posea a un tiempo «la intimidad de lo cotidiano y la distancia del mito, porque sin cercanía no es posible el sentimiento y sin distancia es imposible el asombro».
Cantidad de páginas	192
Fecha Ingreso	15-03-2025