Some Paul Auster REVIEWS
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Only read the New York Trilogy, really liked it, so I def have some others on my TBR list. He reminded me a bit of Kobo Abe
Great review!
I've had a similar Auster reading history to yours, I got really obsessed with his work when I was around 18 (started with Moon Palace, then went onto The New York Trilogy), then devoured lots of his novels and I guess I grew a bit fed up with it and haven't read him in years.
I really enjoyed Oracle Night and Man in the Dark, but funnily enough, since you mentioned The Music of Chance as being more popular with readers, I really did not enjoy it and felt like it was a waste of my time. However, I must admit, all of these I read well before I started studying literature, so I'd be interested to see how my take on them would be now.
I always mean to read more of his work now, but keep getting "sidetracked" with my readings for uni. 4321 and Travels in the Scriptorium are definitely on my reading list, but it will probably be at least half a year before I can pick them up. At the moment I'm knee deep into House of Leaves and some other unconventional fiction (Burroughs, Barth, Coover...) for a class, then onto re-reading Ulysses for my BA thesis.
I really enjoy your reviews, they're very insightful, but at the same time not too highbrow as to be exhausting after lots of academical reading.
I read Man in the Dark in 2018 and loved the narrative and writing style. I made it one of my favourite reads of the year.
Great to see this. I know Auster loves Poe and Bolano.
Ive had Oracle Night on my shelf for six months. Totally ignorant about Auster. Didnt see this coming this A.M. but I guess IMA read some Paul Auster sooner in 2019 than I thought! Thx, BookChemist 🤩🇨🇮📿🍀🤯Post Script: Ill read the New York Trilogy, too. Question: Can you do a 2019 read along of Against the Day or Bleeding Edge, next? Appreciated, mate. 💥
I've been thinking a lot about the next readalong and, if I do Pynchon again, it would probably be Against the Day ;). I'll keep you guys posted!
I recommend you to read Enrique Vila-Matas work.
I see more people reading Auster in Spain than I ever did in the US. Maybe it's a Latin or Southern European trend? Curious...
Great review, I also really liked these 3 books, especially Oracle Night.
I strongly recommend Brooklyn Follies and 4321 as well, despite being long.
I did not enjoy, however, neither Mr. Vertigo nor In the Country of Last Things. I didn't feel like reading Auster, quite boring stories, not catchy, quite straightforward, not engaging characters... Have you read them already?
I really like Brooklyn Follies, one of my favorite of his! I actually like In the Country of Last Things too, I thought it conveyed its sinister, increasingly nightmarish atmosphere very well. I still have to read Mr. Vertigo, and I think I'll eventually get to 4321 - probably as my last Auster novel :)
@@TheBookchemist I just realised I only have 3 fiction Auster works left to read. Have you read Moon Palace and The Music of Chance? If so, do you recommend them?
The Brooklyn Follies is just a masterpiece
Also Happy 2019 \😀/
Ma quelle che vedo dietro a te sopra il tuo letto sono foto di un gruppetto metal noto come Pantera?😃🤘
I think it's Slayer and Metallica!
Did no-one write "In The Country Of Bad Things : Unpleasantness in Paul Auster" yet ? I'm not being very generous myself, but all the books I've read - Oracle Night, The Music of Chance, the New York Trilogy and the fictionally-parodied In The Country Of Last Things - are a trip into guaranteed horror, unrelatable characters, gut-punch twists and a general claustrophobic misery. Hence the question: is it possible that his are horror novels? I think it's mostly how the characters spell out their own doom against common sense, like in horror movies. "Social Horror" or "Interpersonal Horror." Not much the Horror of Chance, unless you mean "letting oneself be guided by chance."
Hey, that's actually an excellent take, and I totally subscribe to your view! It's true of Last Things which is, after all, a horror novel also in a more superficial way, but it's also definitely there in the novels you mention - Oracle Night being an excellent case of a book where characters act very much like people in horror movies. I don't know much about Auster scholarship, but you should write that essay ;)!
Hey! Have you read 4321? Do you have any thoughts on the novel?
No. I read 2666 :)
@@graybow2255 Did you like it? I'm going to read it in the end of January and hope that Bolaño will astound me
@@bbslcm Overall, I enjoyed it. Although Im used to reading long novels, a section in the middle rather bored me because it is, I think, unduly long and repetitious. I recommend more The Tin Drum, Underworld, or Midnight's Children, for example, (in case you havent read them)
@@graybow2255 I have read The Tin Drum and was impressed by it. Delillo and Rushdie are also on my TBR list, definitely will read Midnight's Children soon. You have an amazing taste in literature.
Thanks. I LOVE (and study) literature. What about you?
yep, found the characters really snobbish, especially the wife laughing at the taxi driver's malapropism--and then I found the story within the story quite boring
Man In The Dark is Auster’s worst novel - a disgrace, he should never have published it. Oracle Night, Brooklyn Follies and Invisible are all mediocre, as is Sunset Park.