2024-05-05 08:40:38
The prolific American writer Paul Austerauthor of works such as The New York Trilogydied at age 77 from complications of lung cancer.
Auster died at his home in Brooklyn surrounded by his family, including his wife and fellow writer Siri Hustvedt and his daughter Sophie, his friend Jacki Lyden said in a statement.
With pronounced and expressive eyes, Auster acquired cult status around the 80s and 90s, thanks to the renowned work The New York Trilogy and his movie Smoke.
His awards include: Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France and the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature.
Praised by intellectuals, His work also reached the mass public. His thirty books, translated into more than 40 languages, can be found anywhere books are sold, due to their popularity.
He Booker Prize, of the United Kingdom, for which he was nominated, declared yesterday that Auster’s work “moved readers and influenced writers around the world.” In March 2023, Hustvedt announced that he was diagnosed with cancer, the culmination of a few tragic years in the final stretch of his life.
Her ten-month-old granddaughter had died in 2021 from ingesting heroin. And her son Daniel, the girl’s father and accused of involuntary manslaughter, died of an overdose just ten months later.
In a text published in August 2023 on Instagram, Hustvedt He recognized that the illness gave Auster no respite.
“The patient, and I at his side, have traveled this road, had delays and gone in circles. We have not yet reached the sign that indicates the end of the road: You are leaving Cancerlandia”, he wrote alongside some photos of the two when they were younger.
for your friend The sound, Auster He was “a writer’s writer,” someone who encompassed “with words all the facets of loss, loneliness, the joys and sorrows of a life.”
“He never lost touch with human suffering and that made him the beloved writer he has been,” he said.
Paul Auster grew up in Newark, New Jersey, and was the son of Polish Jewish immigrants.
He moved to New York to attend Columbia University.
After graduating, he spent four years in France, where he made a living doing translations while honing his craft as a writer.
Finally published in 1982 The Invention of Solitudea reflection on father-son relationships, a recurring theme in the work of Auster.
The book of writer who died on Tuesday, was a hit with critics and unleashed his commercial talent that would come later. His breakthrough came with The New York Trilogya philosophical twist on the crime genre featuring a shady quartet of private detectives named Blue, Brown, Black and White.
In the following years he continued with existential themes with books such as Moon, S Palace, The Music of Azar y Leviathan.
Other outstanding works are The Book of Illusions y Brooklyn Folliesin which a lung cancer survivor searches for a place to die peacefully in the Brooklyn his childhood.
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2024-05-05 08:40:38