New Avenues in Paul Auster’s Twenty-First Century Work

Paul Auster has been a prolific writer of poetry, memoir, essays and novels since the 1970s. The Invention of Solitude (1982) bears traits of all four modes of writing and marks the transition to a composite universe of narrative prose which has mesmerized and challenged ever increasing numbers of readers across the world. In 1985, he made his mark on the international literary scene with The New York Trilogy, an innovative work of art drawing on familiar genres of detective story, mystery no..