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Day/Night: Two Novels: Travels in the Scriptorium and Man in the Dark Paperback - 2013

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From the publisher

For the first time in one volume, two existential classics by internationally bestselling novelist Paul Auster.

Day/Night brings together two metaphysical novels that mirror each other and are meant to be read in tandem: two men, each confined to a room, one suddenly alert to his existence, the other desperate to escape into sleep.

In Travels in the Scriptorium, elderly Mr. Blank wakes in an unfamiliar cell, with no memory of who he is or how he got there. He must use the few objects he finds and the information imparted by the day's string of visitors to cobble together an idea of his identity. In Man in the Dark, another old man, August Brill, suffering from insomnia, struggles to push away thoughts of painful personal losses by imagining what might have been.

Who are we? What is real and not real? How does the political intersect with the personal? After great loss, why are some of us unable to go on? "One of America's greats" (Time Out - Chicago) and "a descendant of Kafka and Borges," (Booklist) Auster explores in these two small masterpieces some of our most pressing philosophical concerns.

Details

Title Day/Night: Two Novels: Travels in the Scriptorium and Man in the Dark
Author Paul Auster
Binding Paperback
Pages 336
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Picador USA
Publication date 2013-11-05
Features Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
ISBN 9781250037879 / 1250037875
Weight 0.63 lbs (0.29 kg)
Dimensions 8.29 x 5.53 x 0.9 in (21.06 x 14.05 x 2.29 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: 21st Century
Category Fiction - General
Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Identity (Philosophical concept)
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2013028074
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Bloodbath Nation, Baumgartner, The Book of Illusions, and The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. Among his other honors are the Prix Mdicis tranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, and the Premio Napoli for Sunset Park. In 2012, he was the first recipient of the NYC Literary Honors in the category of fiction. He was also a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions), the PEN/Faulkner Award (The Music of Chance), the Edgar Award (City of Glass), and the Man Booker Prize (4 3 2 1). Auster was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. He died at age seventy-seven in 2024.