Great story about Nathan, his nephew, a little girls and a bookshop. ", full of failed intellectuals, secretly sentimental curmudgeons, flamboyant and artsy refugees from the Midwest, bitter and precocious children, etc. October 17th 2006

Commentaire composé The Brooklyn Follies Texte 1 Passage introduction Ligne 1 à 45 J. Giordano

Nathan’s narrative suddenly swerves from Tom, “the long-suffering hero of these Brooklyn follies,” to Harry, né Harry Dunkel, a man with (as his surname implies) a dark past. He runs into his nephew Tom who has ended up in the same neighborhood and they are both aimless and misfits. The Brooklyn Follies, published in 2005, is a novel by the acclaimed American author Paul Auster. Later on she gets married to a cult member who keeps her locked in a room when she refuses to keep going to church after the cult leader comes on to her and she gives him oral sex (this story she tells at some length to her uncle). 2 The scene probably takes place in the United States.

Novels The New York Trilogy (City of Glass • Ghosts • The Locked Room) • In the Country of Last Things • Moon Palace • The Music of Chance • Leviathan • Mr. Vertigo • Timbuktu • The Book of Illusions • Oracle Night Nathan helps others and e. Paul Auster tells the story of Brooklyn, the Park Slope neighborhood, as it is beginning the transition to gentrification. I'm 3/4 of the way through the book and it's my first Auster so I feel ill-equipped to reply. I tell you this because reading it in Brooklyn undoubtedly affec.

Tom has seemingly given up on life and has resigned himself to a string of meaningless jobs as he waits for his life to change. Nathan Glass, a retired life-insurance salesman diagnosed with lung cancer, moves out to Brooklyn to die. This is a rather well-organized passage in which Nathan tells us the reasons for his coming back to Brooklyn, his failed marriage, his former divorce, the nature of his relationship with his daughter, his health record and his despair…. Author I couldn’t have picked a better book to accompany me on my trip. Auster's passion for reading began when he was about 12 and his uncle, Allen

The Brooklyn Follies is a 2005 novel by Paul Auster. Folly, in which he proposes "to set down in the simplest, clearest language Father Brad This is the story of Nathan and Tom in the Brooklyn neighborhood. But, little by little, he goes on feeding pieces of information to help us understand that the story revolves around the trite aspect of his life, in other words around the life of an ordinary man among ordinary people. But still I do not feel comfortable with the way it’s handled. Is there a method to the madness that I’m just not picking up on? I guess it just felt like a lazy effort. The Brooklyn Follies contains the classic elements of a Paul Auster novel. Nonfiction White Spaces • The Invention of Solitude • The Art of Hunger • Why Write? idiocy, every foible, and every inane act I had committed during my long and And also what is the point of the story of Kafka and the doll? Father Sami It's a touching book with the types of well fleshed-out, "I know that guy" type of characters.

THE In parts, I really really liked it. He is looking down into a plastic bag, surveying its content. He moves to Brooklyn from some distant suburb. The author of Orphan Train returns with an ambitious, emotionally resonant historical novel. He is recovering from lung cancer and is looking for "a quiet place to die". But he begins to care more and more as the novel progresses. This is a novel about male angst but in a funny way. The events of the story come together to give Nathan a life again.

From the first pages I realized it was set in the same neighborhood that I was staying in in Brooklyn.