An old man sits in a room, with a single door and window, a bed, a desk and a chair. Each day he awakes with no memory, unsure of whether or not he is locked into the room. Attached to the few objects around him are one-word, hand-written labels, and on the desk is a series of vaguely familiar black-and-white photographs and four piles of paper. Then a middle-aged woman called Anna enters and talks of pills and treatment, but also of love and promises. Who is this Mr Blank, and what is his fate? What does Anna represent from his past - and will he have enough time to ever make sense of the clues that arise? After the huge success of The Brooklyn Follies, his new novel sees Auster return to the metaphysical territory familiar from his enormously influential The New York Trilogy. A dark puzzle, and a game that implicates both reader and writer alike, Travels in the Scriptorium is a mind-altering exploration of language, responsibility and the passage of time.
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Paul Benjamin Auster
Paul Auster é um dos principais escritores americanos em atividade. Sua obra costuma utilizar tramas policiais para falar sobre temas como o existencialismo e o absurdismo. São elementos característicos de seus livros a busca por identidade, a metaficção, a força do acaso, a intertextualidade e a procura por um sentido na vida. Além de diversos romances e livros de poesia, Auster também escreveu roteiros para o cinema. Entre as suas principais obras estão <i>A invenção da solidão</i>, <i>A trilogia de Nova York</i>, <i>Leviatã</i> e <i>Invisível</i>.
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