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Lädt ... A salto de mata (Original 1997; 2013. Auflage)von Paul Auster (Autor)
Werk-InformationenVon der Hand in den Mund von Paul Auster (1997)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. In den sechziger Jahren kehrt der junge Paul Auster den USA den Rücken. Er reist voller Hoffnung nach Europa, ins Paris der Boheme und der Studentenrevolte, um dort Schriftsteller zu werden. Doch zunächst einmal muss er sich seinen Unterhalt verdienen. Seine mühsamen Versuche als Übersetzer, Rezensent oder Ghostwriter bringen jedoch kaum etwas ein. Er kehrt nach New York zurück, aber dort ergeht es ihm nicht besser. Seine Dramen werden nicht aufgeführt, seine Gedichte nicht veröffentlicht. Da findet ein unter Pseudonym geschriebener Krimi endlich einen Verleger. Doch kaum ist der Vertrag geschlossen, geht der Verlag pleite... Amüsant und voller Selbstironie schildert Paul Auster seinen Werdegang vor dem Hintergrund der bewegten sechziger und siebziger Jahre.
Even given this memoir's limited ambitions -- it is not a full-fledged autobiography but a meditation on the author's early struggles to make a living -- there is something undernourished about it. It's not just the author's flat-footed prose; it's his refusal to give us the sort of color, insight and emotional detail that might transform his narrative into something more than a series of anecdotes strung like pop beads along a theme. Mr. Auster skims over the role his conflicted feelings about his parents' divorce played in shaping his attitude toward money, and he completely ignores the role his destitution played in the breakdown of his marriage. The reader gets no real sense of Mr. Auster's relationship with his parents, his ex-wife or his son, no real understanding, for that matter, of his own personality other than that he wanted to be a writer, glamorized the idea of failure and had deeply ambivalent feelings about money. Mr. Auster's reticence on these matters seems motivated less by a conscious desire to withhold secrets than by a writerly obsession with compression and concision. Indeed many fascinating stories in this book are curiously brushed off in asides. Mr. Auster's observation that he once knew 7 of the F.B.I.'s 10 most wanted men -- this was in 1969, when student radicalism was at its height -- is tossed away in a sentence. And his encounters in Mexico with a ''man who threatened to kill me'' and a ''schizophrenic girl who thought I was a Hindu god'' are consigned to a parenthetical mention. Gehört zu VerlagsreihenPrivé-domein (219)
"This is the story of a young man's struggle to stay afloat. By turns poignant and comic, Paul Auster's memoir is essentially an autobiographical essay about money - and what it means not to have it." "From one odd job to the next, from one failed scheme to another, Auster investigates his own stubborn compulsion to make art, and describes his ingenious, often farfetched attempts to survive on next to nothing. From the streets of New York City and Paris to the rural roads of Upstate New York, the author treats us to a series of remarkable adventures and unforgettable encounters and, in several elaborate appendixes, to previously unknown work from these years. Here are three plays that contain the seeds of inspiration for some of Auster's future work, a tabletop baseball game (complete with cards and rules), and a pseudonymous detective novel - the author's first full-length novel." "Each is an example of Auster's effort to make money; each is an illustration of the artist's mind at work. The result is a book of manifold delights and discoveries, an autobiography that resembles no other."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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