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Angustia y desasosiego son dos de las -poco felices- sensaciones que provoca la lectura de esta genialidad de novela.</p><p>No hay mucho que contar acerca de las poco más de 200 páginas que componen La carretera. Un padre y un hijo deambulan por unos postapocalípticos y devastados ... (
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Los atentados del 11-S, tal y como tuve ocasión de comprobar con mis propios ojos durante el pasado curso, han ejercido una importantísima influencia en toda la literatura norteamericana que se ha escrito desde entonces. De Safran Foer a Rushdie, pasando por, evidentemente, Don DeLillo, toda esta co ... (
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Invisible
I can't deny that Paul Auster is one of my favourite authors since I discovered him during those wonderful university student years. When a new book is released I can't help act as Cinderella's step-mother, adding it to the first one in the 'to-be-read' list. I loved Travels in the Scriptorium ... (continue)
I can't deny that Paul Auster is one of my favourite authors since I discovered him during those wonderful university student years. When a new book is released I can't help act as Cinderella's step-mother, adding it to the first one in the 'to-be-read' list. I loved Travels in the Scriptorium and Man in the Dark. Invisible, Auster's last work, is a gem.
We're living a period, just in case you did not realize, with an unusual outburst of zombies in arts, mainly literature and films, but also photography and even schulpture. Paul Auster has joined this tendency with his particular revenant book. But before you wonder what's wrong with the newyorker, let me explain what's going on. Invisible is a book of zombies in an 'Austerian' way. There are no putrid corpses looking for brains, there are no pandemic diseases, there are no chainsaws or baseball bats. There is -almost- no blood, and you won't read gore or horrific scenes. Auster's zombie is different. It is a revenant, yes, it is a figure which comes back from its tumb, physical or metaphorically speaking, and it comes back by means of letters, memories, books and non published stories. Invisible is feed by things which come back: forgotten friends coming back after 40 years asking for help in order to purge their sins, memories tormenting existence once and once again, the neverending question 'Could I have done something else?', the afternoon playing with your sister when you were children.
Invisible joins together the purest Paul Auster with something new. The sexual degree of the novel is the highest in all his works, the narrative tricks are more limited, the textual levels do not absorb the reader as they do, for instance, in Oracle's Night. There is a coming back to manuscripts, writers, New York, chance -less chance-. But there is also Paris, a tropical lost island and forbidden love. There is a coming back to almost police research, but also a content which, against Austerian tendency, overcomes form. It could be talked about Auster's particular Citizen Kane, but it wouldn't be fair.
It is difficult to talk about Invisible's plot without spoiling the whole thing, so the only thing that can be said is that Auster is in his best moment and it looks as if he has leave the dangerous cliches he was holding on, but without leaving his obsessions. Auster's zombies, as I said, do not frighten in most of the cases. They fascinate us with their meetings. They light, they are humans, they devour their own feelings and shake alien ones. It is a pleasure being chewed that way.