2024-05-01 11:48:04
He was a charismatic through and through – and of course a New Yorker, body and soul. Now the world-famous writer Paul Auster has died.
New York.
The US writer Paul Auster is dead. The author of the “New York Trilogy” died yesterday at the age of 77 as a result of cancer, according to the “New York Times” and the British “Guardian”, citing Auster’s confidante Jacki Lyden reported.
Paul Auster was born in Newark in 1947 to Jewish immigrants and dreamed of becoming a writer from an early age. He studied literature in New York and France and initially supported himself through teaching assignments and translation work.
After his first marriage failed, he made his breakthrough in the mid-1980s with the “New York Trilogy” – three loosely connected detective stories entitled “City of Glass”, “Slaughter Shadow” and “Behind Closed Doors”. He later established himself as an acclaimed best-selling author with works such as “Moon Over Manhattan”, “Mr. Vertigo” and “The Book of Illusions”.
Auster’s characters, often influenced by his own life story, are eccentric, broken characters. They lose themselves in dark abysses and obscure corners in search of themselves. The unforeseeable, random events and fantastic twists shape their existence and give rise to philosophical reflections on art and culture, identity, life and death.
More recently, Auster has published several extensive works, including the 2017 novel “4 3 2 1”, which runs to more than 1,000 pages, and the approximately 800-page biography of the US author Stephen Crane (1871-1900) with the title “In Flames” (original title: “Burning Boy”). The relatively short novel “Baumgartner” (around 200 pages) was published in the USA last November.
Hamburg publishing house mourns: “outstanding author”
The Hamburg Rowohlt publishing house mourns the loss of Auster. The publisher announced on Wednesday in Hamburg that he was one of the outstanding authors of contemporary American literature. “The German translations of his books have been published by Rowohlt Verlag since 1989, a long-lasting and deep connection that makes us feel the loss all the more painfully.” (dpa)
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