Bibliograph

Collected prose, autobiographical writings, true stories, critical essays, prefaces, and collaborations with artists, Paul Auster

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Collected prose, autobiographical writings, true stories, critical essays, prefaces, and collaborations with artists, Paul Auster

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 511-512)

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Collected prose

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

57694273

Responsibility statement

Paul Auster

Review

"The celebrated author of The New York Trilogy, The Book of Illusions, and Oracle Night presents here a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces, true stories, autobiographical writings, and collaborations with artists, as well as occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers."--Jacket

Sub title

autobiographical writings, true stories, critical essays, prefaces, and collaborations with artists

Table Of Contents

The invention of solitude -- Hand to mouth -- True stories. The red notebook ; Why write? ; Accident report ; It don't mean a thing -- Gotham handbook -- The story of my typewriter -- Northern lights. Pages for Kafka ; The death of Sir Walter Raleigh ; Northern lights -- Critical essays. The art of hunger ; New York babel ; Dada bones ; Truth, beauty, silence ; From cakes to stones ; The poetry of exile ; Innocence and memory ; Book of the dead ; Reznikoff ; The Bartlebooth follies -- Prefaces. Jacques Dupin ; André du Bouchet ; Black on white ; Twentieth-century French poetry ; Mallarmé's son ; On the high wire ; Translator's note ; The National Story Project ; A little anthology of surrealist poems ; The art of worry ; Invisible Joubert ; Hawthorne at home -- Occasions. A prayer for Salman Rushdie ; Appeal to the Governor of Pennsylvania ; The best of substitute for war ; Reflections on a cardboard box ; Random notes: September 11, 2001, 4:00 pm ; Underground ; NYC = USA

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