Name: Un hombre en la oscuridad (in Spanish)
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Author: Paul Auster
ISBN: 9786073915908

portada Un hombre en la oscuridad (in Spanish)

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Paul Auster

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Synopsis "Un hombre en la oscuridad (in Spanish)"

Una brillante y devastadora novela sobre las múltiples realidades que habitamos mientras las guerras se extienden a nuestro alrededor August Brill tiene setenta y dos años y se está recuperando en la casa de su hija, en Vermont, tras sufrir un accidente de coche. No puede dormir y, acostado sobre la cama en la negrura de la noche, inventa historias para rehuir acontecimientos del pasado que preferiría olvidar, como la reciente muerte de su esposa y el horroroso asesinato del novio de su nieta, Titus. En una de esas historias, el jubilado crítico de libros imagina un mundo paralelo en el que Estados Unidos no está en guerra con Irak sino contra ellos mismos. En esta otra América, las torres gemelas no cayeron, los resultados de las elecciones del 2000 llevaron a la secesión y se produjo una sangrienta guerra civil. A medida que avanza la noche, la historia de Brill se vuelve cada vez más intensa, y aquello que no estaba intentando evitar recordar insiste en ser narrado. «Apasionada e impactante, Un hombre en la oscuridad es una novela que nos obliga a confrontarnos con la oscuridad de la noche al mismo tiempo que celebra la existencia de alegrías cotidianas en un mundo capaz de desarrollar la violencia más grotesca.» Time Out

Paul Auster

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Paul Auster was a writer, translator, and filmmaker. Among his works are The Invention of Solitude (1982); The New York Trilogy (1987); Moon Palace (1989); Leviathan (1992); Timbuktu (1999); The Book of Illusions (2002); Oracle Night (2003); Brooklyn Follies (2005); Sunset Park (2010); Winter Journal (2012); 4 3 2 1 (2017); The Immortal Flame of Stephen Crane (2021); A Country Bathed in Blood (2023), in collaboration with Spencer Ostrander, and Baumgartner (2024). He wrote the screenplays for the films Smoke (1995) and Blue in the Face (1995), co-directing with Wayne Wang, and for Lulu on the Bridge (1998) and The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007), which he directed alone. He edited the short story collection I Thought My Father Was God (2001) and his poetic work is collected in the volume Complete Poetry (2012). He was also the author of A Life in Words (2018), a volume that collects his conversations with Professor I. B. Siegumfeldt about his work and the craft of writing.
He received numerous awards, including the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, the Médicis Prize for the novel Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, and the Best Book of the Year Award from the Madrid Booksellers Guild for The Book of Illusions. He was named a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. His work is translated into more than forty languages. He has received numerous awards, including the Médicis Prize for the novel Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, the Best Book of the Year Award from the Madrid Booksellers Guild for The Book of Illusions, the Qué Leer Award for Oracle Night, and the Leteo Award; he was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for The Book of Illusions and the PEN/Faulkner Award for The Music of Chance.
In 2006 he received the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. His work is translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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