Paul Austers største, mest hjerteskærende og overbevisende roman. En overvældende og overraskende fortælling om arv og miljø, om kærlighed og livet selv. Den 3. marts 1947 bliver Archibald Isaac Ferguson født på hospitalet i New Jersey. Fra det øjeblik han kommer til verden, tager familiens liv fire samtidige og uafhængige retninger. Hver af de fire versioner af Ferguson bliver tryllebundet af den skønne og mageløse Amy Schneiderman, og hver af de fire Ferguson’er får hver deres egen helt enestående relation til hende. Som læser følger man alle fire i medgang og modgang. Forskellige liv og dog det samme.
Paul Auster (f.1947) er en amerikansk forfatter, digter og multikunstner. Auster debuterede i 1982 og efterfølgende har han udgivet mere end 36 romaner og digtsamlinger. Senest udkom Auster med “Rapport fra de indre landskaber” hos Lindhardt og Ringhof oversat af Rasmus Hastrup.
Big In Every Way Back in the days of Dickens, writers used to be rewarded monetarily by the word. Weâve come a long way since then; many current books are barely 200 pages. Paul Auster writes a dense and detailed 800+ page book that requires time, commitment and interest. In other words, itâs a book that needs to be savored when little else is on oneâs plate.
Big, bold, dense, long, epic, slow – everything you’d expect in an 880-page book I have not read Paul Auster before, and maybe I should have before tackling this novel. Another review noted that this book feels like a throwback and I agree – this feels like a novel from the 1950s (even though a lot of it is the 1970s) in its expectations of the reader and its refusal to compromise on its huge, sprawling intentions.
Failed To Capture My Imagination Let’s establish right away that Paul Auster is one of my favorite authors. In fact, I’d consider myself something of a “fanboy.” I’ve read the vast majority of his published work after discovering him about ten years ago. He earned my trust back then, which means I will read anything he releases. Anything.