Name: La Noche del Oráculo (in Spanish)
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Author: Paul Auster
ISBN: 9788433972729

portada La Noche del Oráculo (in Spanish)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Paul Auster

Publisher

Anagrama

Topic

novela contemporánea

Collection

compactos

Year

2007

Language

Spanish

Pages

264

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9788433972729

ISBN13

9788433972729

Edited in

España

Synopsis "La Noche del Oráculo (in Spanish)"

Sidney Orr es un escritor que se recupera de una enfermedad a la que nadie esperaba que sobreviviera. Un día compra un cuaderno azul y descubre que puede... Leer másSidney Orr es un escritor que se recupera de una enfermedad a la que nadie esperaba que sobreviviera. Un día compra un cuaderno azul y descubre que puede volver a escribir. Su amigo John Trause, también escritor, también enfermo, también poseedor de otro exótico cuaderno azul, le ha hablado de Flitcraft, un personaje que aparece en El halcón maltés y que al sobrevivir tras un roce con la muerte lo abandonó todo para inventarse otra vida en otra ciudad. En la novela que Orr escribe, Flitcraft se ha convertido en Nick Bowen, un joven editor que, tras salvarse por un pelo de la muerte, se muda a Kansas, con el manuscrito de una novela inédita de una escritora famosa en los años veinte, y cuyo título es La noche del oráculo. Y en paralelo a la novela de Nick, Orr va contando la novela de su propia vida, de su matrimonio con Grace, una mujer cuyo pasado desconoce...

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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