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Mr. Auster was born in 1947. In a family of Jewish immigrants in Newark, he dreamed of becoming a writer from a young age. He studied literature in New York and France and initially earned a living by teaching and translating.
Mr. Auster made a breakthrough in the 1980s, when he created the “New York Trilogy” – three detective stories called “City of Glass“, “Ghosts” and “Locked Room“. He later established himself as a bestselling author with books such as The Moon Palace, Mr. Vertigo, and The Book of Illusions.
Mr. Auster’s characters, often influenced by his own life story, are eccentric, lonely. In search of themselves, they get lost in dark abysses and obscure recesses. Unpredictable, random events mark their existence and stimulate philosophical reflections on art and culture, identity, life and death.
Mr. Auster has published several large-scale works in the recent past, including the 2017 published the over 1,000 page novel 4 3 2 1 and approximately 800 page biography of American author Stephen Crane (1871-1900). Auster’s novel Baumgartner was released in the US last November.
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