Invisible is the first book I’ve read from Paul Auster. I’ve heard his name countless times but yet didn’t want to read any of his works. G
Invisible and Margot
When you find yourself in a story, and when you immediately identify a character with yourself, then the book becomes even more beautiful, the pages move more quickly. In Invisible that character was Margot for me. I’ve found myself in her sumptuous taciturnity, the way she cooks and the way she thinks and talks about sex. The act of talking is most of the time boring for me. I’m a person who speaks as little as possible and only when I need to. Of course, I’ve had and will have a lot of heated discussions on topics I’m interested in, but that’s it.
Margot’s silence, and her being indifferent to her environment as if her soul was out of her body having a picnic somewhere else, made me think that I was not alone. I’ve read parts from Margot to my husband. It made me somewhat happy to see that he loved what I’m reading. But what made me feel thrilled is that he told me that Margot character was just like me. We were very alike. Isn’t it perfect when you find yourself in a book? And the person who knows you better then you do think the same way is priceless.
Paul Auster’s characters are quite alive in Invisible. You hate some and admire some. Although the story is not impressive, it continually stimulates your curiosity and makes you read until your eyes are red. Enjoy!
About the book: Invisible
Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Paul Auster’s fifteenth novel opens in New York City in the spring of 1967, when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University, meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born and his silent and seductive girlfriend, Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.
About the author: Paul Auster
Paul Auster is the bestselling author ofReport from the Interior, Winter Journal, Sunset Park, Invisible, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. He has been awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature, the Prix Médicis Étranger, the Independent Spirit Award, and the Premio Napoli. Auster is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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