Travels in the Scriptorium

An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or...
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Author: Paul Auster
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Travels in the Scriptorium by Auster, Paul

Travels in the Scriptorium

CHF 20.00

Travels in the Scriptorium

CHF 20.00
Author: Paul Auster
Format: Paperback
Language: English

An old man awakens, disoriented, in an unfamiliar chamber. With no memory of who he is or how he has arrived there, he pores over the relics on the desk, examining the circumstances of his confinement and searching his own hazy mind for clues.

Determining that he is locked in, the man--identified only as Mr. Blank--begins reading a manuscript he finds on the desk, the story of another prisoner, set in an unfamiliar, alternate world. As the day passes, various characters call on Mr. Blank in his cell, and each brings frustrating hints of his forgotten identity and his past.

Both chilling and poignant, Travels in the Scriptorium is vintage Paul Auster: mysterious texts, fluid identities, a hidden past, and, somewhere, an obscure tormentor. And yet, as we discover during one day in the life of Mr. Blank, his world is not so different from our own.

Author: Paul Auster
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 12/26/2007
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780312426293


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 02/03/2008 pg. 28
New York Review of Books 12/04/2008 pg. 36

About the Author

Paul Auster is the bestselling author of The Brooklyn Follies, Oracle Night, and The Book of Illusions, among many other works. I Thought My Father Was God, the NPR National Story Project Anthology, which he edited, was also a national bestseller. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.




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