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Original Title:	The Invention of Solitude
ISBN:	0143112228 (ISBN13: 9780143112228)
Edition Language:	English

The Invention of Solitude

Paul Auster

Paperback | Pages: 192 pages

Rating: 3.78 | 10933 Users | 1231 Reviews

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Title	:	The Invention of Solitude
Author	:	Paul Auster
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 192 pages
Published	:	January 30th 2007 by Penguin Books (first published 1982)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography

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In this debut work by New York Times-bestselling author Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy), The Invention of Solitude, a memoir, established Auster’s reputation as a major new voice in American writing. His moving and personal meditation on fatherhood is split into two stylistically separate sections. In the first, Auster reflects on the memories of his father who was a distant, undemonstrative, and cold man who died an untimely death. As he sifts through his Father’s things, Auster uncovers a sixty-year-old murder mystery that sheds light on his father’s elusive character. In the second section, the perspective shifts and Auster begins to reflect on his own identity as a father by adopting the voice of a narrator, “A.” Through a mosaic of images, coincidences, and associations “A,” contemplates his separation from his son, his dying grandfather, turning the story into a self-conscious reflection on the process of writing.

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I don't entirely know what to say or how to describe this book. Rather I'll just state that in the end the only reaction I had was that I had just read something beautiful.

it makes you feel like the writer isn't writing his words on a blank sheet of paper, it's like he's writing directly in your soul.

"It was. It will never be again. Remember."The first part, Portrait of an Invisible Man, is the memoir of the author about the days after the death of his father, when he finds himself among the whole stuff of a dead man, and when he starts to discover his father again. This part is really good and touching. But I was truly thrilled by the second part, The Book of Memory, when a man, in fact, the author, sits in his room and thinks, about his past and tries to dig into his memories, and the

Two parts: "Portrait of an invisible man," a meditation about his father upon his father's death, and "The Book of Memory," which is a kind of abstract meditation about memory, language, solitude, writing, story and fatherhood, in part based on his own young son Daniel (with no mention of Lydia Davis, Daniel's mother). This is a book about fatherhood, so it's about men and seeing yourself in your father and your son, to see the old man in the face of a child, and vice versa. The first section is

This is a memoir told in two parts--the first half dealing with Auster trying to come to terms with his father's death and seemingly nonexistent existence, and the second half dealing with Auster's experiences as father himself. I loved the first half and would give it 5 stars. Auster's account of trying to find an identity for his father might be the best of the author's writing that I've read. The second half, though, had no connection for me, felt too experimental and nonlinear, and detracted

The Invention of Solitude, Paul AusterThe Invention of Solitude is Paul Auster's first memoir, published in the year 1982. The book is divided into two separate parts, Portrait of an Invisible Man, which concerns the sudden death of Auster's father, and The Book of Memory, in which Auster delivers his personal opinions concerning subjects such as coincidence, fate, and solitude, subjects that have become trademarks of Auster's works.تاریخ نخستین خوانش: نوزدهم سپتامبر سال 2009 میلادیعنوان: اختراع

Wow, again, like I touched on in my review of Hand to Mouth, what an interesting life Auster has had and his childhood is one that would definitely make a quiet and introspective child retreat even further and observe. The father is obviously not your average run of the mill 1950s dad. He is withdrawn most of the time - the possibility of Aspergers struck me - and is not in the least bit affectionate. In this breakthrough book Auster ponders on his childhood, the sort of father he had to grow