Timbuktu is a 1999 novella by Paul Auster. It is about the life of a dog, Mr Bones, who is struggling to come to terms with the fact that his homeless master is dying. The story, set in the early 1990s, is told through the eyes of Mr Bones, who, although not anthropomorphised, has an internal monologue in English.
Timbuktu is a 1999 novella by Paul Auster. It is about the life of a dog, Mr Bones, who is struggling to come to terms with the fact that his homeless master is dying. The story, set in the early 1990s, is told through the eyes of Mr Bones, who, although not anthropomorphised, has an internal monologue in English.
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Combining elements of mystery, meta-fiction, and existential philosophy, the traditional detective story is radically reimagined to probe identity, coincidence, and human isolation in The New York Trilogy. Paul Benjamin Auster was an American novelist, poet, translator, memoirist, and director whose extensive body of work has been translated into more than forty languages.
Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1947, Paul Auster earned undergraduate and Master's degrees from Columbia University before moving to Paris, where he supported himself by translating French literature. Returning to the United States in 1974, he developed a versatile literary career spanning fiction, poetry, essays, and film scripts, becoming a central figure in the Brooklyn literary community. Over a career lasting five decades, he wrote more than twenty books and earned significant international recognitions, including the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 2006, the Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan, and a shortlist position for the 2017 Man Booker Prize for 4 3 2 1.
Auster's writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and meta-narrative techniques to examine the search for identity and personal meaning. His novels frequently call attention to the artifice of storytelling, constructing intricate mysteries around chance encounters, unexpected catastrophes, and deep solitude. Rather than resolving traditional procedural plots, his narratives leverage investigative frameworks to explore philosophical questions about memory, destiny, and the human condition.
7 books in catalog
Combining elements of mystery, meta-fiction, and existential philosophy, the traditional detective story is radically reimagined to probe identity, coincidence, and human isolation in The New York Trilogy. Paul Benjamin Auster was an American novelist, poet, translator, memoirist, and director whose extensive body of work has been translated into more than forty languages.
Born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1947, Paul Auster earned undergraduate and Master's degrees from Columbia University before moving to Paris, where he supported himself by translating French literature. Returning to the United States in 1974, he developed a versatile literary career spanning fiction, poetry, essays, and film scripts, becoming a central figure in the Brooklyn literary community. Over a career lasting five decades, he wrote more than twenty books and earned significant international recognitions, including the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 2006, the Prix Médicis Étranger for Leviathan, and a shortlist position for the 2017 Man Booker Prize for 4 3 2 1.
Auster's writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and meta-narrative techniques to examine the search for identity and personal meaning. His novels frequently call attention to the artifice of storytelling, constructing intricate mysteries around chance encounters, unexpected catastrophes, and deep solitude. Rather than resolving traditional procedural plots, his narratives leverage investigative frameworks to explore philosophical questions about memory, destiny, and the human condition.
