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Travels in the Scriptorium

Paul Auster

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

After the huge success of The Brooklyn Follies, Travels in the Scriptorium sees Auster return to more metaphysical territory. A dark puzzle and a game that implicates both reader and writer alike, it is an ingenious exploration of language, responsibility and the passage of time.

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ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Paul
Auster

Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions and The New York Trilogy, among many other works.

In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan. He has also been shortlisted for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than forty languages.

He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Paul Auster is the bestselling author of Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions and The New York Trilogy, among many other works.

In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan. He has also been shortlisted for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than forty languages.

He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS

The use of an ingenious exploration of language that requires a careful determined reading. He leads the reader to a puzzle, a fierce game, a claustrophobic condition, exploiting emotions. A reflection of metaphysical problems such as guilt misunderstanding and loneliness.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
United States
Original Language
English
Author
Paul Auster
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Nominating Library
Biblioteca Municipal Central de Lisboa - Portugal, Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli - Italy

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