Disappearances

by Paul Auster

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Beginning with the short fragments of Spokes and continuing on through the more ample meditations in Facing the Music, this selection of Paul Auster's poetry reveals a voice that has been consistently faithful to its visionary impulses.

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Nichts bleibt. Der kalte Blick
...gewahrte Kälte,
indes ein Bild von Feuer
sich
durch das Wort frisst,
das in deinem Munde ringt. Die Welt
ist
was du ihr überlässt, ist nur
du
in der Welt, die mein Leib
betritt: dieser Ort,
wo es an allem mangelt. (Brandstiftung)

Gedanken und Gedichte, in denen ich einen wahren Menschen erkenne, der BrandstiFtern der Worte ihren jämmerlichen Spiegel vorhält, den Abstieg ins pure Nichts ihrer Seele empfiehlt, um mit flinken Spießen der Flammen sich selbst heimzuleuchten, dorthin, wo eine einsame Sehnsucht angstvoll kauert: ein sprachloser, ängstlicher Mensch, umweht und bedeckt von inszenierten Sprachteppichen, die er wärmend über sich und eiskalt über andere legt.

Hervorragend übersetzte Gedichte, links show more Englisch, rechts Deutsch - ich vertiefe mit diesem Buch meine Kenntnisse einer Sprache, die nur an der Oberfläche einfach scheint. show less

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Paul Auster was born on February 3, 1947, in Newark, New Jersey. He received a B.A. and a M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. In addition to his career as a writer, Auster has been a census taker, tutor, merchant seaman, little-league baseball coach, and a telephone operator. He started his writing career as a show more translator. He soon gained popularity for the detective novels that make up his New York Trilogy. His other works include The Invention of Solitude; Leviathan; Moon Palace; Facing the Music; In the Country of Last Things; The Music of Chance; Mr. Vertigo; and The Brooklyn Follies. His latest novels are entitled, Invisible and Sunset Park. In addition to his novels, Auster has written screenplays and directed several films. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a French Prix Medicis for Foreign Literature. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Poetry, Fiction and Literature
DDC/MDS
811.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican poetry20th Century1945-1999
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PS3551 .U77 .D5Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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