It was a moment that I had read a book by P aul Auster, then it is with some pleasure that I immersed myself in this book that I quickly devoured. + + + The back cover + + +
"Alone in the dark, I turn and turn the world into my head while trying to overcome an insomnia , one more, one more sleepless night in the Great American Desert. " Thus begins the story of August Brill, retired literary critic, who, forced into immobility by a car accident, settled in Vermont, with her daughter Miriam, which fails to heal the wound that it has already imposed a divorce yet five years old, and who comes to collect his own daughter, Katya, devastated by the death in Iraq, in atrocious conditions, a young man with whom she had broken, thus precipitating, she believes, the latter's departure for Baghdad ... To escape the concerns of the present and the weight of memories, inglorious, in which assail the house of lost souls, Brill takes refuge in fictions of different sorts which he adorns countless sleepless nights. That night, he staged a parallel world where Sept. 11 would not have occurred and where America is not at war against Iraq but in the throes of a bitter civil war. However, while the night progresses, imagination and reality gradually come to overlap as to read and tell each other, to question the responsibility of the individual vis-à-vis its own existence as vis-à-vis history . By placing this war to cause a disturbance capable of inventing the "catastrophe" of a fiction which abolishes the laws of causality, Paul Auster establishes in this powerful allegory, a link between the disarray of consciousness contemporary American and the tireless and fruitful inquiry that continues on the path that the strangeness to happen, the novel invention.
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It is with pleasure that I went back and drowned in the writing of Paul Auster . And with even more interest that this book was a book that attracted me well when it debuted in 2009 Actes Sud and enjoyed a beautiful cover of a beautiful red flash. A title that should be released in paperback in the collection of Babel same publisher. Finally, it will be soon I think.
strange adventure book crossed. Dreamlike tale of a side that tells us the story of an America in Brick uchronic (the word is out! see this post for a definition) that September 11 never happened and where the U.S. is not at war against Iraq but against itself. A civil war broke out because of the taking of independence of a part of this cluster of states known as rude American. Brick and one day finds himself in a hole, he also knows how he got there. But hardly has there be helped out of this place, be entrusted with the mission to kill a character: a guy somewhere dream everything is happening and that it would stop is eliminated probably all this strange and unjust war.
In parallel, following August Brill, retired literary critic and stuck in bed because of a leg useless. He lives with his daughter, who is trying to digest his divorce, and her granddaughter, who is trying to digest the murder of her ex-boyfriend, and her rehashing his past, the love of his life and many other things . And during this strange night, this dark and insomniac, Brill will dream of adventure and character of Brick. He will rethink his own life, questioning, rethinking his family, talk with her granddaughter, and more.
Once again, I got carried away by the pen, deceptively simple, Paul Auster . This American author comes to creating characters always engaging with that little something extraordinary that makes you want to know everything. Its alternate history dream slid in the history of this family, Paul Auster offers a fiction in the fiction that is not free by explaining the delusions of literary Philip K. Dick . It offers us an atmosphere that is not without either his book reminds "In the scriptorium" . But still, even though I read the book quickly and with pleasure, enjoying his writing with a happiness found, it will remain perhaps not his best novel. However, if the book released in paperback in Babel, feel still not (re) discover Paul Auster .
+ + + + + + But still
Other books by Paul Auster on this blog site
Editions Actes Sud
so for the Second Reading Winter Challenge Time Travel, Literary Challenge whose theme is the alternate history.
My presentation post
Other Tickets for the Challenge
's note RSF blog that launched the Challenge
The uchronic what is it? See more at Wikipedia
+ + + + + + The book
strange adventure book crossed. Dreamlike tale of a side that tells us the story of an America in Brick uchronic (the word is out! see this post for a definition) that September 11 never happened and where the U.S. is not at war against Iraq but against itself. A civil war broke out because of the taking of independence of a part of this cluster of states known as rude American. Brick and one day finds himself in a hole, he also knows how he got there. But hardly has there be helped out of this place, be entrusted with the mission to kill a character: a guy somewhere dream everything is happening and that it would stop is eliminated probably all this strange and unjust war.
In parallel, following August Brill, retired literary critic and stuck in bed because of a leg useless. He lives with his daughter, who is trying to digest his divorce, and her granddaughter, who is trying to digest the murder of her ex-boyfriend, and her rehashing his past, the love of his life and many other things . And during this strange night, this dark and insomniac, Brill will dream of adventure and character of Brick. He will rethink his own life, questioning, rethinking his family, talk with her granddaughter, and more.
Once again, I got carried away by the pen, deceptively simple, Paul Auster . This American author comes to creating characters always engaging with that little something extraordinary that makes you want to know everything. Its alternate history dream slid in the history of this family, Paul Auster offers a fiction in the fiction that is not free by explaining the delusions of literary Philip K. Dick . It offers us an atmosphere that is not without either his book reminds "In the scriptorium" . But still, even though I read the book quickly and with pleasure, enjoying his writing with a happiness found, it will remain perhaps not his best novel. However, if the book released in paperback in Babel, feel still not (re) discover Paul Auster .
+ + + + + + But still
Other books by Paul Auster on this blog site
Editions Actes Sud
so for the Second Reading Winter Challenge Time Travel, Literary Challenge whose theme is the alternate history.
My presentation post
Other Tickets for the Challenge
's note RSF blog that launched the Challenge
The uchronic what is it? See more at Wikipedia
+ + + + + + The book
- Paperback: 324 pages
- Publisher: Actes Sud (January 5, 2009)
- Collection: Novels , New
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