5/8/2023 0 Comments Paul auster 4321 reviews![]() ![]() The perspective is puzzling: we’re inside the protagonist’s mind but also told of what he was “still too young at that point to understand”. We’re lured in by Auster’s fine-grained scene-setting and intrigue at his intentions. ![]() Auster replays it a third time – the store burns down with Ferguson’s father inside – before a final alternative shows the business thriving. An early chapter ends after an uncle burgles his father’s white goods store the next chapter rewinds the narrative, with the store burned down, not robbed. A Bildungsroman, it lays out four parallel lives of Archibald Isaac Ferguson, born of Russian-Jewish descent in New Jersey in 1947. ![]()
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