I am grading end-of-semester papers and my head has been somewhere the sun doesn’t shine-I only learned Auster had passed when I saw this video and I said out loud, “Oh no!” This was a wonderful, loving appreciation of a terrific writer. It’s a sad coincidence that I had been planning to read 4321 this month. Now it will feel elegiac. Anyway, you are a wonderful eulogist here, with your characteristic gentleness and sensitivity. I was as moved by this tribute as I was by your discussion of James the other day. Thank you; I couldn’t have learned of this writer’s death more touchingly.
Oh dear, so sad… I was recommended to read his works, as he is/was local (Brooklyn). And yesterday (though I didn’t know he died that day) I was choosing his books in his neighborhood’s Brooklyn Public library brunch. Who knew… RIP.
Thank you for this video. Of all the books I have read to date this year, “Baumgartner” has stayed with me and grown in my estimation. It is a beautiful, quiet novel.
I read 4321 recently and thought about it yesterday when the police were called on the students at Columbia. The book did such a great job of describing the student protests of ‘68. I was in college then, though not at Columbia, and he really brought that era back to me in a gripping and immediate way. I’m sorry he’s gone. Thank you for your tribute to him.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I started reading Paul Auster at 21 and agree that there’s something about his early protagonists and scenarios that resonate deeply with youthful philosophical questioning. However, I also feel that Auster has continued to develop his work and voice that has aged with his audience. I just finished reading Baumgartner last week and along with 4321 and Winter Journal reflect this emphasis in evolving a philosophical questions. I was already planning to revisit some of his mid to later work to explore this pattern further. his sad passing has definitely cemented this plan.
My favorite Auster is The Book of Illusions, which I read back in 2005. The protagonist is a writer who is on a quest to find out what happened to a silent film star who disappeared. I’m not sure if I would like it as much today, but I gave it five stars and it made such an impression on me. I’m sorry he is gone.
He is a much read author in France. I have read Timbuktu three times, I also read many other of his most famous novels, but this book written in a "dog's mind" has remained unforgettable. Thank you for this tribute.
Thanks from,Akins this video honoring his life. Auster’s NY Trilogy will always hold a special place in my reading heart. And his writing about Sophie Callie, real gift
Thank you Eric for this wonderful tribute to Paul Auster. He is one of my favorite authors. I’ve read many of his books, 4321 and Winter Journal and Baumgartner being some of my favorites. He will be missed.
Wow..I just found out today that Paul Auster passed away on April 30th. I have read The New York Trilogy, Leviathan, and Oracle Night of his work. I enjoyed all three of them. I have In The Country of Last Things on my shelf. I can appreciate his recurring themes of coincidence and identity in his work. Also, his paragraphs are a work of art. Paul Auster will be missed. Rest in Love!
Second this. Apparently no one read it (300 or so ratings on goodreads, which is nothing), and that's a shame. Lowkey one of Auster's best. I am really into Crane now because of it
I cried so hard this morning.Just so grateful for what he gave me.TIMBUKTU,MAN IN THE DARK... thk U Universe for creating such a beautiful person &the skills u gave him
Austin's work was translated and introduced into China more than a decade ago. I truly loved reading his novels and found those stories fascinating. Sad to just learn he passed away. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on his work!
Read most of his books. Autobiographies, biography of Crane, poetry and, of course, novels. Absolutely incredible, each one remarkable in its own right (my picks for favorites would be Invisible, Moon Palace and 4321); yes, readable at any age, but in early twenties one has to try Auster. When I read New York Trilogy at 20, something inside me and my perception of literature got rearranged. He's the reason I dabble into writing myself now, although by far a tat unsuccessfully. No other author affected me this way before or since. The only novel of his that I haven't read is In the Country of Last Things, which I own, but so far haven't got a chance to put my hands on it. And now that he's dead, reading it would be as though to accept that that's all, this is it. Not saying I'll never read it, but it'll definatley take some very special occasion.
Also, to my fellow dyslexics and other kinds of audiobook connoisseurs: Auster's audiobooks are a must. A lot of them he read himself and his narrating voice was incredible, very fitting his use of language, which especially since he's re-inverted it after The Brooklyn Follies (I think) really sounds like someone's telling you a story
Great video tribute. Paul Auster stopped me in my tracks when I first encountered his work. 'The Book of Illusions' knocked me out. Such a loss to the literary world, he was one of the true timeless greats.
The Music of Chance is one of my favorite books, and I read "4 3 2 1" during lockdown... it was one of the only things that could take my mind off of the crazy outside world.
Being Australian, he hadn't really featured highly in my reading except for one little book called Auggie Wren's Christmas Story, which was delightful. I really need to pick up his more renowned works.
Thank you so much for sending this heavy news, Eric. Paul's death is a really heavy blow. I hadn't anticipated it. God bless him...and all best to you---Rob in NYC ... XO
Such a great writer to start the reading journey in the early twenties as you said.. I personally also loved Brooklyn Folies and Man in the dark.. but all his books that I’ve read made such a deep impression on me. I want to reread them all and discover more 🙏🏼 thank you Mr Auster ❤️
Thank you for a wonderful tribute to Paul Auster’s life and literary works. I’ve been meaning to read 4321 for some time so I’ll get it from the library in his memory.
Wonderful video and remembrance of his work. I read through most of his works in my early 20's and his duel obsessions with chance/consequence and the power and struggle to keep telling stories when stories seem impossible have always stuck with me. Really memorable novels: Music of chance, Moon Palace, New York Trilogy, Sunset Park, and the Brooklyn Follies. His non-fiction essays were great too. Though people often think of him as postmodern, I think he was much more the meeting of American transcendentalism with European stylistic existential struggles with stories as exemplified in Becket and Kafka. Hearing of his passing has got me motivated to finish the works I haven't read, including some of the recent works like 4321(which you talked about beautifully), and his biography of Stephen Crane. Starting today with his memoir Report from the Interior because I have that at hand and the prose are so evocative!
Paul auster hasta oldugunu öğrendiğimde cok üzülmüştüm. New york üçlemesi ile kitaplarini okumaya başladım. Son kitabini okuyup bitirdigim gun hayata veda etmesi beni derinden sarstı. Ailemin bir uyesini en sevdigim arkadaşımı yitirmiş gibiyim. Huzur icinde yatsın.
Sad news. I read Baumgartner about 2 weeks ago and loved it very much with its message of never give up, which was Paul Auster 100% in his work and I presume in his life.
Oh that is sad to hear. I have Auster's New York Trilogy and Baumgartner on my shelves. New York Trilogy I read many years ago. I might do a re read in tribute.
Excellent summary as usual, but I wanted to say that I try to get people to say “lover” and not “partner” ALL THE TIME and when you casually dropped that I audibly said “hell yeah”.
Great tribute! Moon Palace is my personal favorite. Also of note: Paul Auster wrote the screenplay to the films Smoke and Blue in the Face. ruclips.net/video/uem9TbvQpFk/видео.html
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I pursued a major in English and ultimately became a college literature professor, thanks to Paul Auster.
So beautiful!
Such a huge fan of Paul Auster. Such sad news 😢
I am grading end-of-semester papers and my head has been somewhere the sun doesn’t shine-I only learned Auster had passed when I saw this video and I said out loud, “Oh no!” This was a wonderful, loving appreciation of a terrific writer. It’s a sad coincidence that I had been planning to read 4321 this month. Now it will feel elegiac.
Anyway, you are a wonderful eulogist here, with your characteristic gentleness and sensitivity. I was as moved by this tribute as I was by your discussion of James the other day. Thank you; I couldn’t have learned of this writer’s death more touchingly.
Thank you!
Such a beautiful tribute and reminder of the importance of literature in our lives.
Agree 100 percent!
Thank you
Oh dear, so sad… I was recommended to read his works, as he is/was local (Brooklyn). And yesterday (though I didn’t know he died that day) I was choosing his books in his neighborhood’s Brooklyn Public library brunch. Who knew… RIP.
What a coincidence! Just like one of Paul Auster’s novels.
Thank you for this video. Of all the books I have read to date this year, “Baumgartner” has stayed with me and grown in my estimation. It is a beautiful, quiet novel.
RIP, Maestro.
I read 4321 recently and thought about it yesterday when the police were called on the students at Columbia. The book did such a great job of describing the student protests of ‘68. I was in college then, though not at Columbia, and he really brought that era back to me in a gripping and immediate way. I’m sorry he’s gone. Thank you for your tribute to him.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I started reading Paul Auster at 21 and agree that there’s something about his early protagonists and scenarios that resonate deeply with youthful philosophical questioning. However, I also feel that Auster has continued to develop his work and voice that has aged with his audience. I just finished reading Baumgartner last week and along with 4321 and Winter Journal reflect this emphasis in evolving a philosophical questions.
I was already planning to revisit some of his mid to later work to explore this pattern further. his sad passing has definitely cemented this plan.
Auster was a gem. I am very tempted to reread some of his earlier novels now. It’s hard to imagine we won’t have any new writing from him.
Yes! I think I’ll have a very different experience reading his earlier novels now as opposed to when I first read them in early adult life.
My favorite Auster is The Book of Illusions, which I read back in 2005. The protagonist is a writer who is on a quest to find out what happened to a silent film star who disappeared. I’m not sure if I would like it as much today, but I gave it five stars and it made such an impression on me. I’m sorry he is gone.
Yes, very good book.
That book is still in my mind after reading it in high school. I'm in my thirties now. May he rest in peace!
@@Crina-LudmilaCristeaAuthornot all books have that effect. That speaks volume.
He is a much read author in France. I have read Timbuktu three times, I also read many other of his most famous novels, but this book written in a "dog's mind" has remained unforgettable. Thank you for this tribute.
Timbuktu is my favorite Auster novel.
So sad to hear of his passing, just finished Mr Vertigo today. One of the many Paul Auster books I've read
Thanks from,Akins this video honoring his life. Auster’s NY Trilogy will always hold a special place in my reading heart. And his writing about Sophie Callie, real gift
Thank you Eric for this wonderful tribute to Paul Auster. He is one of my favorite authors. I’ve read many of his books, 4321 and Winter Journal and Baumgartner being some of my favorites.
He will be missed.
Wow..I just found out today that Paul Auster passed away on April 30th. I have read The New York Trilogy, Leviathan, and Oracle Night of his work. I enjoyed all three of them. I have In The Country of Last Things on my shelf.
I can appreciate his recurring themes of coincidence and identity in his work. Also, his paragraphs are a work of art. Paul Auster will be missed. Rest in Love!
He meant so much to me. Totally gutted by this news.
Such a great novelist and his biography of Stephen Crane was amazing.
His wife, Siri Hustvedt is also a fabulous writer.
Second this. Apparently no one read it (300 or so ratings on goodreads, which is nothing), and that's a shame. Lowkey one of Auster's best. I am really into Crane now because of it
I cried so hard this morning.Just so grateful for what he gave me.TIMBUKTU,MAN IN THE DARK... thk U Universe for creating such a beautiful person &the skills u gave him
Austin's work was translated and introduced into China more than a decade ago. I truly loved reading his novels and found those stories fascinating. Sad to just learn he passed away. Thanks for sharing your thoughts on his work!
4321 is such an iconic read :) parallel timelines, mundanity in one epic
Read most of his books. Autobiographies, biography of Crane, poetry and, of course, novels. Absolutely incredible, each one remarkable in its own right (my picks for favorites would be Invisible, Moon Palace and 4321); yes, readable at any age, but in early twenties one has to try Auster. When I read New York Trilogy at 20, something inside me and my perception of literature got rearranged. He's the reason I dabble into writing myself now, although by far a tat unsuccessfully. No other author affected me this way before or since.
The only novel of his that I haven't read is In the Country of Last Things, which I own, but so far haven't got a chance to put my hands on it. And now that he's dead, reading it would be as though to accept that that's all, this is it. Not saying I'll never read it, but it'll definatley take some very special occasion.
Also, to my fellow dyslexics and other kinds of audiobook connoisseurs: Auster's audiobooks are a must. A lot of them he read himself and his narrating voice was incredible, very fitting his use of language, which especially since he's re-inverted it after The Brooklyn Follies (I think) really sounds like someone's telling you a story
Great video tribute. Paul Auster stopped me in my tracks when I first encountered his work. 'The Book of Illusions' knocked me out. Such a loss to the literary world, he was one of the true timeless greats.
The Music of Chance is one of my favorite books, and I read "4 3 2 1" during lockdown... it was one of the only things that could take my mind off of the crazy outside world.
Being Australian, he hadn't really featured highly in my reading except for one little book called Auggie Wren's Christmas Story, which was delightful. I really need to pick up his more renowned works.
Thank you so much for sending this heavy news, Eric. Paul's death is a really heavy blow. I hadn't anticipated it. God bless him...and all best to you---Rob in NYC ... XO
Thank you for this tribute.
What an amazing writer... having read all of his work it's now time for a re-read.
RIP Paul, you will be truly missed..
Such a devastating news😢 He is one of my favourite authors. “4321”, “New York trilogy” and “Sunset Park” are among my favourite books❤
Sad to hear this news! I've yet to read Paul Auster but I had one of his books on my TBR. I'll have to make time for one of his works soon!
11:32 He's mentioned in one of the stories in Amor Towles new book "Table for Two" ( which I coincidentally read yesterday)😢
My favourite writer. Will be greatly missed.
Such a great writer to start the reading journey in the early twenties as you said.. I personally also loved Brooklyn Folies and Man in the dark.. but all his books that I’ve read made such a deep impression on me. I want to reread them all and discover more 🙏🏼 thank you Mr Auster ❤️
Thank you for a wonderful tribute to Paul Auster’s life and literary works. I’ve been meaning to read 4321 for some time so I’ll get it from the library in his memory.
There is a wonderful movie called “The Music of Chance” based on his work. Auster makes a cameo appearance.
Thank you for this video, Eric!
Nice to see this tribute! New York Trilogy wasn't really on my short term radar, but you do make a good case for it.
Thank you for highlighting Paul Auster's writing. I recently enjoyed Baumgartner very much.
Thank you, Eric! Auster was one of my favorite authors.
A great loss. The Music of Change is a personal favourite but so many other outstanding works.
Wonderful video and remembrance of his work.
I read through most of his works in my early 20's and his duel obsessions with chance/consequence and the power and struggle to keep telling stories when stories seem impossible have always stuck with me. Really memorable novels: Music of chance, Moon Palace, New York Trilogy, Sunset Park, and the Brooklyn Follies. His non-fiction essays were great too.
Though people often think of him as postmodern, I think he was much more the meeting of American transcendentalism with European stylistic existential struggles with stories as exemplified in Becket and Kafka.
Hearing of his passing has got me motivated to finish the works I haven't read, including some of the recent works like 4321(which you talked about beautifully), and his biography of Stephen Crane. Starting today with his memoir Report from the Interior because I have that at hand and the prose are so evocative!
Yes Eric, very sad...I just watched the re-run of his Hardtalk interview on BBC this morning.....James
Paul auster hasta oldugunu öğrendiğimde cok üzülmüştüm. New york üçlemesi ile kitaplarini okumaya
başladım. Son kitabini okuyup bitirdigim gun hayata veda etmesi beni derinden sarstı. Ailemin bir uyesini en sevdigim arkadaşımı yitirmiş gibiyim. Huzur icinde yatsın.
Very sad, indeed. Lovely video ❤
I read his earlier works rather obsessively when I was a young adult.
Yes! moonpalace was/is my favourite
Sad news. I read Baumgartner about 2 weeks ago and loved it very much with its message of never give up, which was Paul Auster 100% in his work and I presume in his life.
Oh that is sad to hear. I have Auster's New York Trilogy and Baumgartner on my shelves. New York Trilogy I read many years ago. I might do a re read in tribute.
4321 is so perfect to me, is one of my all time favorit, i can open it any page and start reading, is a pleasure
4321 was wonderful as was Baumgarter. RIP Paul. You will be missed
Excellent summary as usual, but I wanted to say that I try to get people to say “lover” and not “partner” ALL THE TIME and when you casually dropped that I audibly said “hell yeah”.
Underrated author!
I loved Timbuktu, resonates with me still many years on
Rip Paul Benjamin Auster, you will be missed
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I appreciated reading Paul Auster's Timbuktu, told from a dog's point of view who is the companion of a mentally ill homeless man.
you missed nrooklyn follies read it
Great tribute! Moon Palace is my personal favorite. Also of note: Paul Auster wrote the screenplay to the films Smoke and Blue in the Face.
ruclips.net/video/uem9TbvQpFk/видео.html