Name: El Libro de las Ilusiones (in Spanish)
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Author: Paul Auster
ISBN: 9788433969972

portada El Libro de las Ilusiones (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Paul Auster

Publisher

Anagrama

Collection

Panorama de narrativas

Year

2003

Language

Spanish

Pages

344

Format

Paperback

ISBN

8433969978

ISBN13

9788433969972

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "El Libro de las Ilusiones (in Spanish)"

David Zimmer, un escritor y profesor de literatura de Vermont, ya no es ni la sombra de sí mismo. Se pasa los días bebiendo y cavilando sobre el último instante en que su vida aún podría haber cambiado, el minuto aquel en que su mujer y sus hijos todavía no habían subido al avión que estalló. Hasta que una noche, mirando casi sin ver la televisión, y por primera vez tras seis meses de deambular en el vacío, algo lo hace reír. El causante del ínfimo milagro es Hector Mann, uno de los últimos cómicos del cine mudo. Y David Zimmer descubre que aún no ha tocado fondo, que todavía quiere vivir. Comenzará entonces su investigación para escribir un libro sobre Mann, un joven, brillante, enigmático cómico nacido en Argentina, una de cuyas últimas películas, Don Nadie, cuenta la historia de un hombre a quien un pérfido amigo convence de que beba una poción que lo hace desaparecer. Y anticipa la propia historia del actor, que hace sesenta años se desvaneció sin que jamás se supiera nada más de él, ni apareciera su cadáver. Zimmer consigue acabar su libro y lo publica, y tres meses después recibe una carta de una mujer que afirma ser la esposa de Hector Mann, y lo invita a que vaya a verlos a ella y a su marido a Tierra del Sueño, en Nuevo México. Zimmer le pide pruebas, piensa que puede ser una impostora, o una chiflada. Hasta que una noche, una extraña joven llama a su puerta y, amenazándolo con una pistola, lo obliga a acompañarla...

Paul Auster

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Paul Auster was a writer, translator, and filmmaker. Among his works are The Invention of Solitude (1982); The New York Trilogy (1987); Moon Palace (1989); Leviathan (1992); Timbuktu (1999); The Book of Illusions (2002); Oracle Night (2003); Brooklyn Follies (2005); Sunset Park (2010); Winter Journal (2012); 4 3 2 1 (2017); The Immortal Flame of Stephen Crane (2021); A Country Bathed in Blood (2023), in collaboration with Spencer Ostrander, and Baumgartner (2024). He wrote the screenplays for the films Smoke (1995) and Blue in the Face (1995), co-directing with Wayne Wang, and for Lulu on the Bridge (1998) and The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007), which he directed alone. He edited the short story collection I Thought My Father Was God (2001) and his poetic work is collected in the volume Complete Poetry (2012). He was also the author of A Life in Words (2018), a volume that collects his conversations with Professor I. B. Siegumfeldt about his work and the craft of writing.
He received numerous awards, including the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, the Médicis Prize for the novel Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, and the Best Book of the Year Award from the Madrid Booksellers Guild for The Book of Illusions. He was named a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. His work is translated into more than forty languages. He has received numerous awards, including the Médicis Prize for the novel Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, the Best Book of the Year Award from the Madrid Booksellers Guild for The Book of Illusions, the Qué Leer Award for Oracle Night, and the Leteo Award; he was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for The Book of Illusions and the PEN/Faulkner Award for The Music of Chance.
In 2006 he received the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. His work is translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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