2024-05-03 04:25:44
He dies novelist United States Paul Auster at 77 years old, author of “The New York Trilogy”.
This April 30, the sensitive death of the prolific writer Paul Auster was announced at the age of 77.
According to American media, Auster died after complications from lung cancer he suffered. Likewise, it was detailed that the novelist died at his home in Brooklyn.
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Who was Paul Auster?
Paul Benjamin Auster was born on February 3, 1947 in neighboring New Jersey, into a middle-class Jewish family of Polish descent. His parents were Queenie and Samuel Auster.
After his taste for literature that arose thanks to the library of an uncle of his, who was a translator, he began in this discipline at an early age, since he began writing at the age of 12.
Between 1965 and 1967 he studied French, Italian and English literature at Columbia University in New York.
Later, he began translating French authors such as Jacques Dupin and André du Bouchet, and also traveled to Paris, where he returned in 1967 to avoid going to the Vietnam War.
In the French capital he tried to work in cinema, although he failed the entrance exam to the Institute of Higher Studies in Cinematography (IDHEC), however he wrote scripts for silent films that were never filmed, but which were later captured in The Book of Illusions. .
Thanks to his way of writing that fell into absurdism and existentialism, after this search for meaning in reality, he became a literary icon in the Big Apple during the 1980s.
One of his emblematic works was “The New York Trilogy,” which gave a philosophical twist to the police genre.
Likewise, due to his style and ideology that captivated several critics, he was named Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of France in 1992 and received the Prince of Asturias Award for Letters in 2006.
He also wrote the screenplay for the film “Smoke,” which portrayed the lost souls who frequent a Brooklyn tobacco shop.
Auster’s often existentialist novels were also very popular in Europe.
Other of his notable creations are “The Moon Palace”, “The Book of Illusions” and “The Brooklyn Follies”.
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However, despite having a life full of success, a degenerative disease came into his life, because on March 11, 2023, his wife, the writer Siri Hustvedt, with whom he married in 1981 and with whom he had his first daughter : Sophie Auster announced that Paul had cancer. Doctors diagnosed him in December 2022.
”I’ve been away from Instagram for a while. It’s because my husband was diagnosed with cancer in December after being sick for several months before that. He’s now being treated at Sloan Kettering in New York, and I’ve been living in a place I’ve come to call Cancerland. season the author spent in chemotherapy Many people have crossed their borders, either because they are or have been sick or love someone, a parent, child, spouse or friend who has or has had cancer. Cancer is different for each person who has it. All human bodies are equal and no two are alike.
Some people survive and others die. Everyone knows this, and yet, living close to that truth changes everyday reality.[…] he wrote on IG.
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