New York: Paul Auster, a famous novelist, poet, writer, and cinematographer who rose to fame in the 1980s with his modern rebirth of the gothic novel and endured as one of the most recognizable New York writers of his generation, passed away on Tuesday from lung cancer complications at his home. He was 77.
With his hooded eyes, heartfelt air and leading-man appearance, Auster was generally described as a “literary actor”. One of America’s most dazzlingly brilliant artists, according to the Times Literary Supplement of Britain, was again called him. Though born in New Jersey, he forged a strong connection with the patterns of his adopted town, which was a unique quality in much of his writing, mainly Brooklyn, where he settled in 1980.
His standing was anything but native, yet. In France only, he won a number of literary rewards. One of the few British goods that the French welcomed as a native boy was Austria, who had previously lived in Paris as a young man. Auster is a rock superstar in Paris, according to New York magazine’s article in 2007.” Simply a bestselling author in these parts, he is. In Britain, his 2017 book, “4321”, which examined four horizontal versions of the early existence of its hero- as Auster was, a Jewish child born in Newark in 1947- was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
His career took off in 1982 with his disturbing memoir,” The Introduction of Solitude,” about his distant relationship with his recently deceased father. Before it was published by a little push in California in 1985, his second book,” City of Glass,” was rejected by 17 producers. The book was the first of three books after packaged in a single size, making it the most well-known work of his,” The New York Trilogy.” In T, NYT’s fashion magazine, it was named one of the 25 most major New York City books of the past 100 times. The movie, which included” City of Glass,”” Spirits” and” The Locked Room, was a postmodern detective story in which brands and names blur and one character is a private vision named Paul Auster.
He pumped out a new book almost annually for years, writing six hours a day, frequently seven days a week. In the end, he published 34 books, including 18 novels, several acclaimed memoirs, and a number of autobiographical works, along with plays, screenplays, and collections of stories, essays, and poems, accounting for shorter works that were later incorporated into larger books.
By the 1990s, Auster had set his sights on Hollywood. He wrote several screenplays, some of which he directed. Auster co-directed 1995″ Blue in the Face”, sprinkled with cameos by a host of stars, including Lou Reed musing on cigarettes, and Madonna delivering a saucy singing telegram. A jazz saxophonist is hit by a stray bullet at a New York club, and Auster would go on to write and direct” Lulu on the Bridge” ( 1998 ). and” The Inner Life of Martin Frost” ( 2007 ), about an author who retreats to a friend’s country house for solitude, only to become entranced by a woman there.
Auster occasionally complained that a large portion of his career had been weighed against” The New York Trilogy.” ” Even so… I do n’t think in terms of’best’ or’worst. ‘ Making art is n’t like competing in the Olympics, after all. “
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