The Art of Hunger: Essays, Prefaces, Interviews

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Sun & Moon Press, 1992 - Biography & Autobiography - 312 pages
"In essays and interviews with literary figures, such as Franz Kafka, George Bataille, Samuel Beckett, Edmond Jabes, Paul Celan, Laura Riding, Knut Hamsun, Hugo Ball, and Charles Reznikoff, this new collection of essays represents a startling examination of writing at the edge of possibility, the pursuit of the sayable from within the heart of silence. By calling for an art of risk, an art that voluntarily courts its own failure, Auster's book undermines our accepted notions about literature, and with remarkable lucidity, leads us to a better understanding of the dangerous stakes of writing. As Don DeLillo has observed, "This is a writer whose work shines with intelligence and originality.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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The Art of Hunger
9
Pages for Kafka
23
Dada Bones
54
Copyright

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About the author (1992)

Paul Auster was born on February 3, 1947, in Newark, New Jersey. He received a B.A. and a M.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. In addition to his career as a writer, Auster has been a census taker, tutor, merchant seaman, little-league baseball coach, and a telephone operator. He started his writing career as a translator. He soon gained popularity for the detective novels that make up his New York Trilogy. His other works include The Invention of Solitude; Leviathan; Moon Palace; Facing the Music; In the Country of Last Things; The Music of Chance; Mr. Vertigo; and The Brooklyn Follies. His latest novels are entitled, Invisible and Sunset Park. In addition to his novels, Auster has written screenplays and directed several films. He is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a French Prix Medicis for Foreign Literature.

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