2024-10-16 15:52:00
<a href="https://time.news/author-of-the-new-york-trilogy-writer-paul-auster-is-dead/" title="Author of the “New York Trilogy”: Writer Paul Auster is dead”>Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster were considered an intellectual dream couple. At the end of April, the world-famous writer died of cancer. The author has been writing about him ever since.
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American writer Siri Hustvedt (69) is writing a book about her husband, the world-famous writer Paul Auster, who died five and a half months ago. “A few days after Paul died, I started writing a memoir about him. I’m still writing it. It’s called Ghost Stories. Now I have 120 pages. That was my first impulse,” Hustvedt said in a interview with “Zeit”. Auster (“City of Glass,” “Moon over Manhattan”) died in late April at age 77 from cancer.
The memoir begins with news of the illness, says Hustvedt, herself a successful writer (“The Glistening World”). “With notes from the time that I kept and with twelve letters to friends that I wrote about the illness and the reasons for it.” She will also record her husband’s latest work, which he was never able to finish. “He wanted to make a very small book of letters to our grandson, who was born on January 1 of this year.” She was present at the birth.
Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster have been married for more than 40 years. (archive image) Image: Lucas Dolega/epa/dpa
Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster have been married for more than 40 years. (archive image) Image: Lucas Dolega/epa/dpa
The book will contain Auster’s letter to his grandchildren
“Paul wanted to finish the book for his grandson. In the end it was 35 pages, but then it was too weak. The pages will be in good hands in the book.” It should be a collage. “The last letter to our grandson is quite heartbreaking. But it’s nice. He said he’s sorry that his grandson can’t know him. But once you know it’s coming to an end, the question is, how do you deal with it. He was so brave, but we all don’t know what we will be like in our final moments.”
Auster and Hustvedt met in New York in the early 1980s. They have been married for more than 40 years and have a daughter together. (dpa)
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