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“Paul died this afternoon, at home, surrounded by his loved ones,” he wrote. Jacki Lyden in a statement sent on Tuesday, April 30 to the AFP news agency. In the text Lyden reported that Paul Auster He died in his Brooklyn apartment, surrounded by his wife. Siri Hustvedt and his daughter Sophie Auster. Since then, the name of the author of the New York trilogy has been one of the trends on social networks. The news media have published stories about the death of Daniel, Auster’s eldest son from a previous marriage, and his granddaughter Ruby, just ten months old.
Internet users have also made a list of the most celebrated books by the writer born on February 3, 1947 in Newark, New Jersey.
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1. The New York Trilogy
This novelistic project turned Auster into one of the references of narrative in English at the end of the last century. It is composed of City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room. The three books reflect on chance, life in the postmodern city and the search for meaning. The prose mixes the effectiveness of detective stories with issues related to literature, art and urban planning.
2. Leviathan
In this fiction, Paul Auster recounts the aesthetic and moral explorations of Peter Aaron, a writer who reflects on the life of Benjamin Sachs. As in almost all of his books, in this one there is a particular obsession with the mechanisms of identity and the ways in which humans seek their place in the world. The novel focuses on the search for meaning in a chaotic world.
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3. The invention of loneliness
Published in 1982, this book is the first prose book by the author, who previously devoted himself almost exclusively to writing poems. This work is composed of two parts Portrait of an Invisible Man and The Book of Memory. In the first part, Auster profiles his father, Samuel Auster, and the complex relationship he had with the world and with his family. In the second part, the work takes on a more intimate tone. There Auster reflected on fatherhood and filial relationships.
4. The Immortal Flame by Stephen Crane
Published in 2021, this book portrays the life and times of Stephen Crane, the author who published the book in 1895 The red badge of courage. “Paul Auster’s total commitment to the bad boy of 19th-century American literature is brilliant and beautiful. What a story,” Russel Banks wrote about this book.
