وقفة قبل المنحدر : Paul Auster

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Paul Auster

登場人物たちはそれぞれに人生どん底、詰みな事情を抱えているのですがゲラゲラ笑いながら読みました。この大変な世の中で素晴らしい作品に携わることが出来てとても嬉しいです。ありがとうございました

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Paul Auster, The Book of Illusions

"What was around me was also inside me, and I had only to look into myself in order to see the world."

Paul Auster

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as think I do

Paul Auster

Paul Auster, nel paese delle ultime cose

Più ti avvicini alla fine e più ti rimane da dire. La fine è solo immaginaria, una destinazione che inventi per continuare ad andare avanti, ma arrivi ad un punto in cui ti accorgi che non vi giungerai mai. Può anche darsi che ti debba fermare, ma soltanto perché è finito il tempo a tua disposizione. Ti fermi, ma questo non significa che sei arrivato alla fine.

Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy

Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy

Every life is inexplicable, I kept telling myself. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that he did this and did that, that he married this woman and had these children, that he lived, that he died, that he left behind these books or this battle or that bridge –

none of that tells us very much.

Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy

Paul Auster, Travels in the Scriptorium

his thoughts have largely been elsewhere, lost in a fogland of ghostlike beings and broken memories as he searches for an answer to the question that haunts him.

Paul Auster, Travels in the Scriptorium

Paul Auster

In the end, the problem is not so much that people forget, but that they do not always forget the same thing. What still exists as a memory for one person can be irretrievably lost for another, and this creates difficulties, insuperable barriers against

- Paul Auster, 4 3 2 1

“That was the real difference, Ferguson concluded. Not too little money or too much money, not what a person did or failed to do, not buying a larger house or a more expensive car, but ambition. That explained why Brownstein and Solomon managed to float through their lives in relative peace - because they weren’t tormented by the curse of ambition. By contrast, his father and Uncle Don were consumed by their ambitions, which paradoxically made their worlds smaller and less comfortable than those who weren’t afflicted by the curse, for ambition meant never being satisfied, to be always hungering for something more, constantly pushing forward because no success could ever be big enough to quell the need for new and even bigger successes, the compulsion to turn one store into two stores, then two stores into three stores, to be talking now about building a fourth store and even a fifth store, just as one book was merely a step on the way to another book, a lifetime of more and more books, which required the same concentration and singleness of purpose that a businessman needed in order to become rich.”

Paul Auster, In the Country of Last Things

Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.”

Paul Auster, In the Country of Last Things

Nothing lasts, you see, not even the thoughts inside you. And you musn't waste your time looking for them. Once a thing is gone, that is the end of it.”

― Paul Auster, In the Country of Last Things