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Ugh this book was ridiculous and laughable.
The main character is a pretentious narcissistic self-absorbed writer/professor. He experiences a tragedy and then supposedly falls into a grief so severe that during it he manages to publish a book of film criticism (ugh!) and get another sweet deal to publish a translation of some pretentious French writer (ugh!) (Chateaubriand). The entire time he moans and whines about how much he is SUFFERING. A man suffering for his art - this one. He supposedly m ...more
The main character is a pretentious narcissistic self-absorbed writer/professor. He experiences a tragedy and then supposedly falls into a grief so severe that during it he manages to publish a book of film criticism (ugh!) and get another sweet deal to publish a translation of some pretentious French writer (ugh!) (Chateaubriand). The entire time he moans and whines about how much he is SUFFERING. A man suffering for his art - this one. He supposedly m ...more
Questa citazione "Nessuno è mai stato me. Può darsi che io sia il primo" di Paul Auster, tratta dal libro "Il libro delle illusioni", riflette sulla nostra unicità come individui.
Ogni individuo è irripetibile e unico nel proprio essere. Siamo tutti protagonisti delle nostre storie personali, portatori di esperienze, emozioni e pensieri che ci distinguono dagli altri. Paul Auster, uno degli scrittori contemporanei più acclamati, ha espresso questa concezione dell'individualità nel suo romanzo "Il ...more
Ogni individuo è irripetibile e unico nel proprio essere. Siamo tutti protagonisti delle nostre storie personali, portatori di esperienze, emozioni e pensieri che ci distinguono dagli altri. Paul Auster, uno degli scrittori contemporanei più acclamati, ha espresso questa concezione dell'individualità nel suo romanzo "Il ...more
This one has so many view points to consider. It would make an excellent book club book. A real test to think how I would have acted if I had had happen to me what happened to the book's narrator.
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David Zimmer loses his wife
and sons in a plane crash and
his life begins to spin out
of control. Then one night
he watches a silent screen
comedian and, for the first time
in months, he laughs. His life
becomes his search for information
about the work of this comedian,
an obscure and mysterious man,
Hector Mann.
The Book of Illusions spins and
whirls, spiraling at times into
its own shadows. Recommended.
and sons in a plane crash and
his life begins to spin out
of control. Then one night
he watches a silent screen
comedian and, for the first time
in months, he laughs. His life
becomes his search for information
about the work of this comedian,
an obscure and mysterious man,
Hector Mann.
The Book of Illusions spins and
whirls, spiraling at times into
its own shadows. Recommended.
Aug 22, 2008
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