Wednesday, 26 September 2007

Oracle Night by Paul Auster (2003)


Paul Auster is an author from New Jersey (1947). The main character is Sidney Orr, a writer who is recovering from an accident and is struggling to write again. The footnotes take us to secondary histories, and the story as a whole is very interesting. However, the histories starts to be unfinished and little by little I lost a little of the enthusiasm for following the parallel histories even though this form of writing called my attention and it was what I found most interesting in the book. The author talks about the history of a couple and their very close friend. Most of the events happened in the last part of the book, which it is the part where he puts one of the main ideas of the book: the force of the writing, and he refers to it as a premonitions or a destiny. I missed some descriptions of feelings and locations. Paul Auster also writes movies scripts and short-stories.

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