Readers' Review: "Invisible" by Paul Auster
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Author Paul Auster poses for a portrait in Brooklyn's Park Slope neighborhood in New York, Nov. 9, 1995.
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For this month's Readers' Review, we selected a novel by the contemporary American writer Paul Auster. "Invisible" - set in New York and Paris - unfolds in four parts with changing narrators and perspectives. It's a crime thriller, a sexual exposé and a coming-of-age story. It begins in the intellectually charged atmosphere of Columbia University in 1967. A student and aspiring poet befriends a volatile and mysterious professor. Shortly after, shocking events occur. They haunt the younger man for the rest of his life. We'll talk about truth and imagination - and how memory affects us all.
Guests
Mark Athitakis
writer, editor, critic and blogger.
Lisa Page
president of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation and creative writing teacher at George Washington University.
Neely Tucker
staff writer for The Washington Post magazine; author, "Love in the Driest Season," a memoir of adopting a baby in Zimbabwe.
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Diane,
I listened to the first five minutes of yesterday's discussion, quickly obtained a copy of the book, read it, and then listened to the rest of the program via podcast. Thanks for introducing me to this mesmerizing work -- it's one of the few books one wants to reread almost immediately after finishing it.
I wish your panel had delved more into the role of the editor ("Jim Freeman" -- hmm, implying that he's fast and loose with the facts?) in setting up the story of "Adam Walker."
Born -- introduced to us via that striking reference to Bertrand de Born, the man carrying his own head through eternity -- in Dante's Inferno, is similarly a fictional construct. At the end, we learn that "Born" is trying to get Cecile to write -- even repackage -- his life as a (double? triple?) agent for him. Is there something implied here about the freedom that Adam had to develop his own narrative, something that Born is denied? Has Born indeed become that "decapitated head wailing in the underworld," deprived upon Cecile's departure of anyone to affirm his identity?
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