North American writers never really appeal to me, there’s something in their writing just can’t talk ‘into’ my mind, reading American literature is like letting the water flows onto one’s skin, comes and go in front of my eyes. The experience only limited to North America, all over the world I can find some writer to fall into.
Until Paul Auster, it was all true.
Since Roland Barthe I have never been so touched, while reading Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy, the more and more I wish I can talk and touch the one person who wrote it. Like many other literature from North America, the novel is about the identity seeking (it’s the never ending story to American), but the beauty of it stunned me and I lost myself while tracing the clues with the detective.
And Paul Auster.
Later I googled and found he’s the scriptwriter of “Smoke”, it’s a lovely fact to me because the movie is also a piece of beautiful work.
The first two novels I read are The Book of Illusion and Oracle Night, since I couldn’t get the original English copy I had to read the Chinese translated version for these two, and I swore I have to buy the original ones as soon as possible.
New York Trilogy probably the best among the three I have read now, not only it’s his original words, but also the theme and plotting.
Clean and crystal clear style, I strongly recommend this writer to everyone who like 村上春樹, and always hungry for more.
Related Website:
http://www.paulauster.co.uk/
