BAUMGARTNER, by Paul Auster I can hear the whingeing already: Nothing happens in this novel. It’s too slow, it’s boring, it’s not high concept or high event. And in a nod to how conditioned ...

In “Burning Boy,” the novelist Paul Auster finds a kindred spirit in ... The book opens with a series of accidents. Sy Baumgartner, a 70-year-old professor of philosophy at Princeton, scalds ...

She has been dead for nearly a decade. This moment occurs near the end of Paul Auster’s 18th novel, but it could well be the beginning. Baumgartner follows the movement of its protagonist’s ...

In his latest novel, American novelist Paul Auster delves into the life of Seymour Baumgartner, a distinguished author and philosophy professor, on the verge of retirement. Baumgartner’s life ...

In American author Paul Auster’s early novel In The ... In harking back to his early work of eschatology, Auster marks Baumgartner – his first fiction published since he was diagnosed with ...

Since his breakthrough novel ‘City of Glass,’ Paul Auster has been known for postmodern trickery. His latest, ‘Baumgartner,’ succeeds through its simplicity. Nov. 1, 2023 His work imposed ...

“Paul Auster was the Brooklyn novelist back in ... (2023), a meditation on American gun violence. His final novel, “Baumgartner,” came out last year. As novelist Fiona Maazel noted in ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Auster, a prolific ... In his most recent novel, “Baumgartner,” the title character is a widowed professor haunted by mortality and asking himself “where his mind ...

“Paul was extremely interested in the ... As he was preparing a draft of what would become “Baumgartner” for Grove, Auster began to suffer from peculiar but persistent fevers.

Paul Auster, a filmmaker and author of "City of ... His final published works, "Baumgartner" and "Bloodbath Nation," were published in 2023. Auster's wife, fellow author Siri Hustvedt, announced ...

Paul Auster in 2009. The Times Literary Supplement ... As the novelist Fiona Maazel noted in The New York Times Book Review, “Baumgartner” is replete with many classic Auster touches that ...

Paul Auster, the author of The New York Trilogy ... year after having been diagnosed in December 2022. His final novel, Baumgartner, which tells the story of a widowed writer in his 70s, was ...