The acclaimed American novelist Paul Auster, Author of a prolific work that includes the ‘New York Trilogy’, ‘Brooklyn Follies’ and ‘The Invention of Solitude’, he died on April 30 at the age of 77, according to The New York Times.
Paul Auster died at his home in Brooklyn, New York. due to lung cancer. He is survived by his wife, daughter and grandson.
Brooklyn setting of his novels
Auster was born to a Jewish family of Austrian descent in 1947 in Newark, New Jersey, and would later make Brooklyn his home and the setting for his novels, especially in the 1980s and 1990s.
He built literary labyrinths in all his workslike Russian dolls or matryoshkas, in which she mixes fiction, reality and autobiography, and with which she captivated millions of readers around the world.
In addition to the novel, his prolific work has been translated into over 40 languages including poetry, stories, essays or theater and film scripts (some directed by him).
Auster studied at Columbia University – the focus of current student protests against the war in Israel – and participated in the 1968 demonstrations against the Vietnam War.
He discussed “The Invention of Solitude”
After finishing university he went to live in Paris, where the New York writer is a ‘rock star’ according to New York Magazine.
He began writing in 1982 with ‘The Invention of Solitude’, which revolves around the sudden death of his father, but his real fame would come with ‘New York Trilogy’, a series of novels including ‘City of Glass’, ‘Ghosts’ and ‘The Locked Room’.
Among the concern of his millions of fans about his health in recent years, is the American Paul Auster published ‘Baumgartner’ in 2023.
It is about an eccentric and tender Philosophy professor immersed in pain over the loss of his great love. A story of opportunity, memory and grief from the New York author.
His son died at 44 years old
His life was recently touched by tragedy, when his son Daniel Auster, aged 44, died of an overdose. The writer’s son had been accused of the death of his daughter Ruby -grandson of Paul Auster-, 10 months old.
As said, he took heroin when he fell asleep and when she woke up the little girl was dead from fentanyl and heroin poisoning.
In 2006, the writer received the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. In his speech he said: “I have spent my life communicating with people I have never met, with people I will never meet, and I hope to continue doing so until the day I will breathe my last breath.”
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