Talking to strangers : selected essays, prefaces, and other writings, 1967-2017

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The work Talking to strangers : selected essays, prefaces, and other writings, 1967-2017 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Memorial Hall Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Talking to strangers : selected essays, prefaces, and other writings, 1967-2017

Title remainder

selected essays, prefaces, and other writings, 1967-2017

Statement of responsibility

Paul Auster

Creator

• Auster, Paul, 1947-

Author

• Auster, Paul, 1947-

Subject

• American literature -- 21st century
• Auster, Paul, 1947-
• Auster, Paul, 1947-
• American essays
• Essays
• American literature -- 20th century

Genre

• Essays

Language

eng

Summary

"In this updated collection of literary essays, interviews, prefaces, personal notes, and occasional writings, including poignant and illuminating appreciations of other poets and novelists and of New York City life, Paul Auster offers not only samplings but insights into the first fifty years of his brilliant writing career. Through critical readings of literary greats such as Hawthorne, Poe, Beckett and Kafka, as well as less well-appreciated poets from George Oppen to Laura Riding, Auster celebrates the achievements of his fellow authors while probing the constraints of language and considering the relationships between writers and the works they create. In addition, through an offering of highly personal notes, essays, and interviews dating back to his student days at Columbia in the 1960s, Auster turns the light on himself, exposing readers to the myriad of topics and inspirations that have shaped his work. From sitting in the bleachers at a Mets game to discussing the Dada art movement, from witnessing the death-defying performances of high-wire artist Philippe Petit to reflecting on the events of September 11th, Auster ushers readers into his thinking across fifty years and through a wide-reaching literary world. Sprawling in scope and subject, local in outlook, Talking to Strangers paints a vivid and intimate portrait of the man behind the page who has long captivated readers around the world"--

Member of

• Prose works., Selections

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Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

LBSOR/DLC

Dewey number

813/.54

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3551.U77

LC item number

A6 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography