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RO60079111. ORACLE NIGHT. 2004. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 207 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
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RO60079111. ORACLE NIGHT. 2004. In-12. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos satisfaisant, Intérieur frais. 207 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon
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Paul Auster's 11th novel Oracle Night is as intelligent and compellingly written as any he has produced. Sydney Orr is a writer recovering from an illness that almost killed him. Out on his daily constitutional he happens upon a curious stationery shop, the Paper Palace, and purchases a blue Portuguese notebook. The notebook casts a curious hold over Orr and seems to enable him to write, something he hasn't done since coming out of hospital. He writes a story about a books' editor who, on serendipitously avoiding some falling masonry, decides to read the near-accident as a reason to change his life. He takes an unread, recently discovered, manuscript of an important writer from the 1930s, Sylvia Maxwell, and disappears off to Kansas City. Reinvention and the associated idea that identity is fluid, re-imaginable, are linked, as is often the case with Auster, to the idea of chance.
So, Auster's usual themes are here: writing about writers and writing he discusses themes such as identity, disappearance, creativity, chance. But, despite what initially looks like a tricky structure (with footnotes and stories within stories) this is really a novel about love and forgiveness. Notwithstanding the dubious reputation of being a "writer's writer" the philosophical Auster has written a comparatively simple, very moving, quite brilliant novel. If the novel's ending is a little too neat, and the drama, as the narrative moves to a close, a little too soap opera, this hardly matters. --Mark Thwaite
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- PublisherFaber and faber
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0571216994
- ISBN 13 9780571216994
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
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