Paul Auster, the celebrated creator of almost three-dozen books — together with Winter Journal, Sundown Park, Invisible, The E book of Illusions and The New York Trilogy — screenwriter on Wayne Wang’s Smoke and director of Lulu on the Bridge, has died. His good friend, Jacki Lyden, confirmed the information to the New York Occasions. Auster was 77.
Auster’s debut work, a memoir titled The Invention of Solitude, received crucial reward.
His stature as certainly one of America’s most outstanding authors was cemented with with a sequence of three loosely linked tales printed collectively as The New York Trilogy. They’re Metropolis of Glass (1985), Ghosts (1986) and The Locked Room (1986). The books within the Trilogy play on tropes of the detective novel to handle existential questions.
Critic Michael Dirda wrote of Auster’s work, “Ever since Metropolis of Glass, the primary quantity of his New York Trilogy, Auster has perfected a limpid, confessional model, then used it to set disoriented heroes in a seemingly acquainted world steadily suffused with mounting uneasiness, imprecise menace and potential hallucination.”
A number of of Auster’s 18 novels had been made into films, together with The Music of Probability.
He later wrote movies himself, starting with the screenplay for Smoke (1995) starring Harvey Keitel, William Damage and Giancarlo Esposito. Auster’s work on the movie received him the Unbiased Spirit Award for Finest First Screenplay.
His collaboration with Wang continued because the duo co-directed a sequel, Blue within the Face, once more starring Keitel and Esposito together with Lou Reed, Mira Sorvino and Madonna. Auster can also be credited on the screenplay for Wang’s The Middle of the World.
In 1998, Auster wrote and directed Lulu on the Bridge, with Keitel, Sorvino and Richard Edson. He did double responsibility once more on 2007’s The Interior Lifetime of Martin Frost, starring David Thewlis, Iréne Jacob and Michael Imperioli.
Auster’s 2017 novel, 4321 was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
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