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 ...

Paul Auster, a celebrated American novelist ... about American gun violence. His final novel, “Baumgartner,” came out last year. The book follows the eponymous lead character — in his ...

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 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 ...

“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.

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 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 ...