Baumgartner

A tender masterpiece of love, memory and loss from one of the world’s great writers.

Paul Auster 저자(글)

Faber & Faber · 2024년 06월 20일

책 소개

And then it started, little by little it started, until they were married five years later and his real life began.

'Exquisite ... A super-abundantly gifted, big-hearted novelist.' Ian McEwan
'A writer whose work shines with intelligence and originality.' Don DeLillo

The life of Sy Baumgartner - noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor - has been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife. Now Anna is gone, and Baumgartner is trying to live with her absence. But Anna's voice is everywhere still, in every spiral of memory and reminiscence, in each recalled episode of the passionate forty years they shared.

Rich with feeling, wit and an eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient episodes of ordinary life, Baumgartner is a luminous work - a tender final masterpiece from one of the world's greatest writers.

'A master.' The Times

What readers are saying:
***** Perfect, subtle, charming, funny and sad.
**** Well-written and compelling but also comforting, like catching up with an old friend.
**** A, beautifully-written and intelligent piece of understated introspective fiction from Auster.

작가정보

저자(글) Paul Auster

Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Sunset Park, The Book of Illusions, Moon Palace and The New York Trilogy. He and Spencer Ostrander collaborated on Bloodbath Nation.

In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. His other honours include the Prix Medicis Étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the Screenplay of Smoke, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Burning Boy, and the Carlos Fuentes Prize for his body of work. His novel 4 3 2 1 was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work was translated into more than forty languages. His final novel, Baumgartner, was published in November 2023. He died on 30 April 2024.

출판사 서평

This mesmerising novel keeps us in thrall throughout as a writer tries to reassemble his life after loss and love. It is intense, sad and, at the same time, full of joy. -- Bernard MacLaverty

Auster can out-Roth, out-Updike and out-Franzen the greatest. ― Financial Times

A writer whose work shines with intelligence and originality. -- Don DeLillo

A super-abundantly gifted, big-hearted novelist. -- Ian McEwan

Winningly farcical and fast-moving, it's a terrific opening, a cascading comedy of perpetually interrupted thought. ― Observer

Auster has always been enchanted by memory, chance, echo. Here, the charge of that obsession electrifies. ― Financial Times

Passionate, gentle, wise . . . A literary voice for the ages. ― Guardian

One of the great American prose stylists of our time. ― New York Times

기본정보

ISBN	9780571384952 ( 0571384951 )
발행(출시)일자	2024년 06월 20일
쪽수	208쪽
크기	128 * 198 * 14 mm / 174 g
총권수	1권
언어	영어

Klover 리뷰 (11)

[my****]

폴 오스터가 남긴 마지막 소설로 분량은 200페이지 남짓의 중편이지만 가장 자신의 모습을 많이 투영시켜서 더 마음이 아픕니다.

[ps*****]

진짜 최고예요.
한국어번역본은 우리나라 최고의 번역가님이 작업중이라는 소문이!!! 한국어 판도 빨리 보고싶습니다.🫶

[mi*****]

폴 오스터의 마지막 작품 ㅠㅠ

[ha*******]

소설같은 인생을 살다간 폴 오스터의 유작

[wl*****]

Am excited to read it:-) love Paul Auster

[ep*******]

유작이 된 폴 오스터의 자아성찰