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[German] - Bloodbath Nation: Ein politischer Essay über Waffengewalt in den USA
Dies ist Paul Austers sehr persönliche Abrechnung mit der Vergottung des Waffentragens in der amerikanischen Kultur und Gesellschaft. Er erzählt davon zunächst in biografischen Vignetten, beginnend bei den Spielzeugcolts der Kindheit und den Western im Fernsehen. Es folgen die ersten Einschläge im näheren Umfeld, der von der Großmutter erschossene Großvater - lange Zeit ein Familiengeheimnis, von dem Auster nur durch Zufall erfuhr. Von da aus geht er zurück in die amerikanische Geschichte und erklärt, warum die Waffe in der Hand des freien Bürgers in direkter Linie aus der Gewalt der Sklavenhaltergesellschaft hervorgegangen ist. Der Streit ums Waffentragen führt ins Zentrum der aktuellen Auseinandersetzungen um die Gestaltung des amerikanischen Gesellschaftssystems. Auster zeigt sich hier als ebenso polemischer wie klarsichtiger politischer Beobachter und Kommentator.
Paul Auster (Author), Oliver Dupont (Narrator)
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Miles Heller tiene veintiocho años y a los veinte desanudó los lazos que lo unían al mundo que hasta entonces había conocido. Abandonó la universidad, se despidió con nocturnidad y una breve nota de sus padres, dejó Nueva York y nadie ha vuelto a saber nada de él. Desde entonces, ha rodado por lugares y trabajos poco cualificados, moviéndose siempre en ese oscuro espacio entre el suelo y el primer peldaño de la escalera laboral y social. Ahora vive en Florida y trabaja para una empresa, al servicio de los bancos de la zona, que se encarga de vaciar las viviendas de los desahuciados que en plena crisis no pudieron seguir pagando su hipoteca, y las prepara para una nueva venta. Miles no tiene ambiciones, vive con lo mínimo, mantiene relaciones muy escasas con la gente y con el mundo y sus únicos lujos son los libros, que compra en ediciones baratas, y la cámara digital con la que documenta a los fantasmas. Si algo ha logrado en estos siete años, ha sido poder vivir en un presente perpetuo, sin deseos y sin futuro. Y habría seguido así si no fuera por una chica, Pilar Sánchez. La conoció en un parque cuando ambos estaban leyendo El gran Gatsby.es, precisamente, la edad de Pilar, una menor. Y como Miles puede ir a la cárcel por su relación con ella, cuando la feroz, codiciosa hermana de Pilar comienza a chantajearlos, él vuelve a Nueva York para esperar allí la mayoría de edad de la joven. Su vuelta es el retorno al pasado y a sus secretos; a su padre, un brillante editor; a su madre, una actriz implacablemente seductora hasta con su hijo; y a su madrastra, una intelectual cuyo juicio no pudo soportar. Pero es también la vuelta al mundo, a la comunidad de Sunset Park y a sus compañeros okupas; a la vida, con todos sus horrores y esplendores.
Paul Auster (Author), Juan Manuel Martínez (Narrator)
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En 1967, Adam Walker es un joven poeta ávido de vida y literatura, con mucho más futuro que pasado. Estudia en la Universidad de Columbia, se opone a la guerra de Vietnam y, además, "esto lo dicen quienes lo conocen, porque él no parece darse cuenta" es guapísimo. Una noche, en una fiesta de estudiantes, conoce a una pareja de franceses muy sofisticados, muy seductores. Lo primero que le llama la atención a Adam es el nombre de él, Rudolf Born, como en Bertrand de Born, el poeta provenzal que en uno de los cantos de Dante lleva su propia cabeza cortada en las manos. Tras varios días de ambigua seducción en los que la pareja va tejiendo su invisible tela de araña en torno al hermoso e inocente americano, Rudolf Born, que está en Columbia como profesor invitado en la School of International Affairs, le ofrece a Adam la dirección de una revista literaria que él financiará.ella, cuando la feroz, codiciosa hermana de Pilar comienza a chantajearlos, él vuelve a Nueva York para esperar allí la mayoría de edad de la joven. Su vuelta es el retorno al pasado y a sus secretos; a su padre, un brillante editor; a su madre, una actriz implacablemente seductora hasta con su hijo; y a su madrastra, una intelectual cuyo juicio no pudo soportar. Pero es también la vuelta al mundo, a la comunidad de Sunset Park y a sus compañeros okupas; a la vida, con todos sus horrores y esplendores.
Paul Auster (Author), Enrique Aparicio (Narrator)
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Nathan Glass ha sobrevivido a un cáncer de pulmón y a un divorcio después de treinta y tres años de matrimonio, y ha vuelto a Brooklyn, el lugar donde nació y pasó su infancia. Quiere vivir allí lo que le queda de su 'ridícula vida'. Hasta que enfermó era un próspero vendedor de seguros; ahora que ya no tiene que ganarse la vida, piensa escribir El libro de las locuras de los hombres. Contará todo lo que pasa a su alrededor, todo lo que le ocurre y lo que se le ocurre, y hasta algunas de las historias "caprichosas, disparatadas, verdaderas locuras" de personas que recuerda. Comienza a frecuentar el bar del barrio, el muy austeriano Cosmic Diner, y está casi enamorado de la camarera, la casada e inalcanzable Marina. Y va también a la librería de segunda mano de Harry Brightman, un homosexual culto y contradictorio, que no es ni remotamente quien dice ser.
Paul Auster (Author), Juan Manuel Martínez (Narrator)
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Auster vuelve la mirada sobre sí mismo y parte de la llegada de las primeras señales de la vejez para rememorar episodios de su vida. Y así, se suceden las historias: un accidente infantil mientras jugaba al béisbol, el descubrimiento del sexo, las masturbaciones adolescentes y la primera experiencia sexual con una prostituta, la rememoración de sus padres, un accidente de coche en el que su mujer resulta herida, una presentación en Arles acompañado por su admirado Jean-Louis Trintignant, la estancia en París, una larga lista comentada de las 21 habitaciones en las que ha vivido a lo largo de su vida hasta llegar a su actual residencia en Park Slope, sus ataques de pánico, los viajes, los paseos, la presencia de la nieve, el paso y la herida del tiempo...En definitiva, un magistral autorretrato.
Paul Auster (Author), Albert Cortés (Narrator)
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This program is read by the author. Paul Auster's greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novela sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself: a masterpiece. Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. From that single beginning, Ferguson's life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. Family fortunes diverge. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. Meanwhile, readers will take in each Ferguson's pleasures and ache from each Ferguson's pains, as the mortal plot of each Ferguson's life rushes on. As inventive and dexterously constructed as anything Paul Auster has ever written, yet with a passion for realism and a great tenderness and fierce attachment to history and to life itself that readers have never seen from Auster before. 4 3 2 1 is a marvelous and unforgettably affecting tour de force.
Paul Auster (Author), Paul Auster (Narrator)
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Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . . Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world in Report from the Interior. From his baby's-eye view of the man in the moon, to his childhood worship of the movie cowboy Buster Crabbe, to the composition of his first poem at the age of nine, to his dawning awareness of the injustices of American life, Report from the Interior charts Auster's moral, political, and intellectual journey as he inches his way toward adulthood through the postwar 1950s and into the turbulent 1960s. Auster evokes the sounds, smells, and tactile sensations that marked his early life and the many images that came at him, including moving images (he adored cartoons, he was in love with films), until, at its unique climax, the book breaks away from prose into pure imagery: The final section of Report from the Interior recapitulates the first three parts, told in an album of pictures. At once a story of the times which makes it everyone's story and the story of the emerging consciousness of a renowned literary artist, this four-part work answers the challenge of autobiography in ways rarely, if ever, seen before.
Paul Auster (Author), Paul Auster (Narrator)
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Here and Now: Letters (2008-2011)
The high-spirited correspondence between New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster and Nobel laureate J. M. Coetzee Although Paul Auster and J. M. Coetzee had been reading each other's books for years, the two writers did not meet until February 2008. Not long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and, "God willing, strike sparks off each other." Here and Now is the result of that proposal: the epistolary dialogue between two great writers who became great friends. Over three years their letters touched on nearly every subject, from sports to fatherhood, film festivals to incest, philosophy to politics, from the financial crisis to art, death, family, marriage, friendship, and love. Their correspondence offers an intimate and often amusing portrait of these two men as they explore the complexities of the here and now and is a reflection of two sharp intellects whose pleasure in each other's friendship is apparent on every page.
J. M. Coetzee, J.M. Coetzee, Paul Auster (Author), J. M. Coetzee, Paul Auster (Narrator)
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From the bestselling novelist and author of The Invention of Solitude, a moving and highly personal meditation on the body, time, and language itself "That is where the story begins, in your body, and everything will end in the body as well. Facing his sixty-third winter, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster sits down to write a history of his body and its sensations both pleasurable and painful. Thirty years after the publication of The Invention of Solitude, in which he wrote so movingly about fatherhood, Auster gives us a second unconventional memoir in which he writes about his mother's life and death. Winter Journal is a highly personal meditation on the body, time, and memory, by one of our most intellectually elegant writers.
Paul Auster (Author), Paul Auster (Narrator)
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One of America's greatest novelists dazzlingly reinvents the coming-of-age story in his most passionate and surprising book to date Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster's fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life. Three different narrators tell the story of Invisible, a novel that travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from Morningside Heights, to the Left Bank of Paris, to a remote island in the Caribbean. It is a book of youthful rage, unbridled sexual hunger, and a relentless quest for justice. With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us into the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, between authorship and identity, to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as "one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers."
Paul Auster (Author), Paul Auster (Narrator)
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"I am alone in the dark, turning the world around in my head as I struggle through another bout of insomnia, another white night in the great American wilderness." So begins Paul Auster's brilliant, devastating tale about the many realities we inhabit as wars flame all around us. Seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. When sleep refuses to come, he lies in bed and tells himself stories, struggling to push back thoughts about things he would prefer to forget – his wife's recent death and the horrific murder of his granddaughter's boyfriend, Titus. The retired book critic imagines a parallel world in which America is not at war with Iraq but with itself. In this other America the twin towers did not fall, and the 2000 election results led to secession, as state after state pulled away from the union, and a bloody civil war ensued. As the night progresses, Brill's story grows increasingly intense, and what he is so desperately trying to avoid insists on being told. Joined in the early hours by his granddaughter, he gradually opens up to her and recounts the story of his marriage. After she falls asleep, he at last finds the courage to revisit the trauma of Titus's death. Passionate and shocking, Man in the Dark is a story of our moment, an audiobook that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence.
Paul Auster (Author), Paul Auster (Narrator)
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An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores over the relics on the desk, examining the circumstances of his confinement and searching his own hazy mind for clues. Determining that he is locked in, the man-identified only as Mr. Blank-begins reading a manuscript he finds on the desk, the story of another prisoner, set in an alternate world the man doesn't recognize. Nevertheless, the pages seem to have been left for him, along with a haunting set of photographs. As the day passes, various characters call on the man in his cell-vaguely familiar people, some who seem to resent him for crimes he can't remember-and each brings frustrating hints of his identity and his past. All the while an overhead camera clicks and clicks, recording his movements, and a microphone records every sound in the room. Someone is watching. Both chilling and poignant, Travels in the Scriptorium is vintage Paul Auster: mysterious texts, fluid identities, a hidden past, and, somewhere, an obscure tormentor. And yet, as we discover during one day in the life of Mr. Blank, his world is not so different from our own.
Paul Auster (Author), Dick Hill (Narrator)
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