Loneliness and What it Creates
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About This Novel
Going through layers of fog, pursuing and reflecting on father, family, and self-identity. In the first part, "Portrait of an Invisible Man," a murder mystery from nearly sixty years ago was discovered while taking inventory of his late father's belongings, thus revealing the secret of his father's elusive character. From trivial relics and fragmented memories, he reconstructed the man who was always absent. The second part, "Book of Memory," has a sudden change in perspective and style. It adopts a third-person narrative to reflect on one's identity as a father. Through the thirteen "Book of Memory", past events are connected to each other, and in the intertextuality of many literary works, loneliness, chance, fatherhood, and even language itself are reflected and commented on, turning the story told into a reflection on the writer's self-awareness. "Loneliness and What It Creates" is Paul Auster's artistic statement, the cornerstone of his creation, and the origin of all stories. "
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