Invention of Solitude

"Starts with Paul Auster's urge to save his father's life from vanishing along with his father. It leads initially to an evocation of his father's conduct and oddities, a reconstruction made of remembered scraps and impressions... But the telling itself was a surprise for Mr. Auster... The subject, approached directly, eludes the pursuer... Mr. Auster therefore turns from his subject to an examination of the attempt to write about it."Auster, Paul is the author of 'Invention of Solitude', published 1988 under ISBN 9780140106282 and ISBN 0140106286.