Baumgartner (Novela / Una novela)

The long-awaited return to the novel by Paul Auster, accompanying the unforgettable Professor Baumgartner on a journey through a lifetime of memories.

Baumgartner is an eminent writer and university professor, as eccentric as he is incredibly tender, who lost his wife nine years ago. His life was defined by the deep and lasting love he felt for Anna, and now, at 71, he continues to struggle to live in her absence.

Their shared story begins in 1968, when they meet as penniless students in New York and, despite being almost opposites in many ways, begin a passionate relationship that will last for forty years. Overcoming the grief of Anna's loss is interspersed with wonderful stories—from his youth in Newark to his father's life as a failed revolutionary in Eastern Europe—and with a powerful reflection on the way we love at different stages of life.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

A taut yet expansive novel of love, memory, and grief from Paul Auster, best-selling, award-winning author and "one of the great American prose stylists of our time" - New York Times

Paul Auster's brilliant eighteenth novel opens with a scorched pot of water, which Sy Baumgartner -- phenomenologist, noted author, and soon-to-be retired philosophy professor - has just forgotten on the stove.

Baumgartner's life had been defined by his deep, abiding love for his wife, Anna, who was killed in a swimming accident nine years earlier. Now 71, Baumgartner continues to struggle to live in her absence as the novel sinuously unfolds into spirals of memory and reminiscence, delineated in episodes spanning from 1968, when Sy and Anna meet as broke students working and writing in New York, through their passionate relationship over the next forty years, and back to Baumgartner's youth in Newark and his Polish-born father's life as a dress-shop owner and failed revolutionary.

Rich with compassion, wit, and Auster's keen eye for beauty in the smallest, most transient moments of ordinary life, Baumgartner asks: Why do we remember certain moments, and forget others? In one of his most luminous works and his first novel since the Booker-shortlisted tour-de-force 4 3 2 1, Paul Auster captures several lifetimes.

Author: Paul Auster
Publisher: Planeta Publishing
Published: 05/28/2024
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.30w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9786073910651
ISBN10: 6073910657
Language: Spanish
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Romance | Later in Life
- Fiction | Family Life | Marriage & Divorce
- Fiction | World Literature | American | 21st Century