The Music of Chance

The Music of Chance (English Original title: The Music of Chance ) is a novel by the American writer Paul Auster in 1990, which was published in Germany in 1992. It was filmed in 1993 starring James Spader and Mandy Patinkin.

Action

The fireman Jim Nashe has finally luck - so it seems. Although he has left his wife and he had to bring his little daughter with his sister, but he unexpectedly inherits from his father, which he actually did not know, a lot of money. He quits his job and moves back and forth across the United States. When he was still just $ 14,000, it reads as a hitchhiker Jack Pozzi, a bankrupt poker players on.

Nashe now risked all his remaining money to allow him a game with the millionaires Flower and Stone, in which both hope to become rich again. But you lose the money, the car, and even go into debt. To pay off the debt, they must build on the site of Stone and Flower a wall. The stones come from a castle in England, which bought the eccentric millionaires and have had mine.

Nashe and Pozzi accustomed well to the work, but when they feel they have gone through their debts, will be presented to them unexpectedly a bill for food and entertainment. Pozzi then flees. The next morning it Nashe found beaten half dead. Botch, who had supervised the two from the beginning, and his son Floyd bring him to the hospital, what Nashe never believe them. Nashe, who alone continues to work now, is going through a crisis. When he finally is truly free, he must again take his old car and killed in an accident. Botch and Floyd sat with him in the car.

Interpretation

The novel is the portrayal of the restless journey of two underdogs in the tradition of modern American travel novels in the style of Jack Kerouac's On The Move, but these breaks at the same time ironic. The central theme is the chance of human happiness and simultaneously the arbitrariness of subjective constructions of reality.

Filming

In English:

• Information in the IMDb ( The Internet Movie Database )
• Trailer: The Music of Chance

Expenditure

• Paul Auster: The Music of Chance. Novel. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1992 ( 13th edition, February 2006, 254 pages), German by Wener Schmitz; ISBN 3-499-13373-3.