Monday, January 11, 2010

The Invention of Solitude


I'm busy reading Paul Auster's debut book "The Invention Of Solitude",it's the 4th Auster's book in my shelf after:"New York Trilogy","Leviathan" and "In The Country Of Last Things" .I have to say it's been really touching so far.
key phrases i faced"Invisible to others and most likely invisible to himslf as well"

2 comments:

  1. that sounds appealing.. haven't read anything by him.. yet. Coincidence has it I'm reading "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison that also focuses on this topic (but from a racial perspective)

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  2. Thanks Adelina:
    I havent heard about Ralph Ellison's Invisible man(kinda curious about it)and it sounds like a perfect suggestion.
    as long as we're talking about invisible man i just wanted to mention the book by H.G.Wells;it had a huge impact,i loved the idea and i lived with that book for so many years...
    About Auster: i feel all his works are related to each others and some common subjects in all of them are : Solitude , Death ,a sense of imminent disaster,Absence or disappearance of a first degree relative,Coincidence,American history,Politics,...
    Most of them narrated by an obsessive writer as the centeral character...
    One of the main influeces in his writing is Jacques Lacan Psychoanalysis

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