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Mr. Vertigo Paul Auster publisher: Viking Penguin, 1993
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| BOOKS BY PAUL AUSTER: The New York Trilogy 1985-1986 (published together in 1990) Three stories on the nature of identity. In the first a detective writer is drawn into a curious and baffling investigation, in the second a man is set up in an apartment to spy on someone, and the third concerns the disappearance of a man whose childhood friend is left as his literary executor. | ||
| The Music of Chance 1990 Nashe comes into an inheritance and decides to pursue a life of freedom. He meets Pozzi, a gambler, who exerts a terrible fascination over him, and together they take a desperate gamble. | ||
| Oracle Night 2003 Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a Brooklyn stationery shop and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18th, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank book, within a world of eerie premonitions. | ||
| ON PAUL AUSTER'S BOOKSHELF The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1850 The tale of a passionate woman in 17th-century Boston who challenges the system of moral authority and places belief in the higher law of her own heart. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain, 1884-1885 The story of Huck and his companion Jim, a runaway slave, as they travel down the Mississippi to escape from slavery and 'sivilization'. The Castle Franz Kafka, 1926P 'published posthumously' The story of K., the unwanted Land Surveyor who is never admitted to the Castle nor accepted in the village, and yet cannot go home, seems to depict like a dream from the deepest recesses of consciousness, an inexplicable truth about the nature of existence. The Maltese Falcon Dashiell Hammett, 1930 The Maltese Falcon set the standard by which the private eye genre is judged. The Big Sleep Raymond Chandler, 1939 The Big Sleep was Raymond Chandler's first novel and features Philp Marlowe, the neat, cleanshaven and sober man who is everything the well-dressed detective should be. The Outsider Albert Camus, 1942 ('cycle des absurdes') An ordinary man is unwittingly caught up in a senseless murder in Algeria. William Wilson Edgar Allan Poe, 1839 'William Wilson' is Poe’s most sustained character study of the doppelganger, or double. | City of Glass 1985 When a stranger calls on Daniel Quinn's phone asking to speak to Paul Auster (supposedly a detective), Quinn claims to be Auster and soon is drawn into a case involving a man who fears his father is trying to kill him. ('Part I' of 'The New York Trilogy', 1985) | WHAT TO READ AFTER CITY OF GLASS? 'POSTMODERN' DETECTIVE STORIES Molloy Samuel Beckett, 1947 (published in 1951) Part I of a trilogy of novels. Written in the first person, Molloy consists of two monologues - that of Molloy on his odyssey towards his mother, lost in town and country and finally emerging from the forest; and that of Moran, a private detective who is sent to find him. The Erasers Alain Robbe-Grillet, 1953 A detective must solve a murder that hasn't yet been committed. [Het huis M] Atte Jongstra, 1993 The inspector himself is the suspect in these 'memoires of a speaker.' MISTAKEN IDENTITY The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Robert Louis Stevenson, 1886 In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Jekyll discovers a monster. The Dark Room of Damokles Willem Frederik Hermans, 1958 "WWII novels" Nihilistic novel about a weakling drawn into the Resistance by his (stronger) doppelgänger - or was it just his imagination? The White Castle Orhan Pamuk, 1985 A young Italian scholar is captured by pirates. Put up for auction at the Istanbul slave market, he is bought by a Turkish servant, eager to learn about scientific and intellectual advances in the West. The Secret Sharer Joseph Conrad, 1910 A captain saves a young stowaway and hides him in his cabin. Mahomed's Double Jorges Luis Borges, 1936 Short story by the 'master of mirrors.' See also Borges and I. Borges and I Jorges Luis Borges, 1946 Short story by the 'master of mirrors.' See also Mahomed's Double. THE MUSIC OF CHANCE Snow Falling on Cedars David Guterson, 1994 In 1954, Ishmael Chambers, a local reporter who lost an arm in the war, covers the murder trial of a Japanese-American fisherman, whose wife had been Ishmael's boyhood sweetheart. The Cave Tim Krabbé, 2001 Can a single encounter with evil poison an entire life? The Fall Marga Minco, 1983 The fatal fall of a Jewish woman is contrasted with the falling accident that saved her from deportation 40 years earlier. |
| Moon Palace 1989 | ||
| Mr. Vertigo 1993 | ||
| The Book of Illusions 2002 | ||
| Timbuktu 1999 Auster filters the 'homeless experience' through the relentlessly unsentimental eye of a dog. | ||
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