The Brooklyn Follies

The Brooklyn Revue (English: The Brooklyn Follies ) is a novel by American writer Paul Auster from the year 2005.

Action

The novel begins in Brooklyn, as Nathan Glass retires to his old neighborhood after forming survived lung cancer. He hardly memories of Brooklyn, where he was born, but it is preferred and referred to it as a place where he would die. After his divorce, with the proceeds he rents a two -bedroom apartment, he begins to organize his life anew.

Then the events come. Nathan Glass meets his nephew (Tom Wood), he did not see again for several years, and learns of the fate of the setbacks he has suffered and his current job as a salesman in a bookseller named Brightman 's Attic. So it happens that he is the owner of the bookstore, Harry Brightman (formerly Dark ) is presented. Shortly thereafter enters the Little Lucy on the scene, the daughter of Tom's long -lost sister. Perplexed, they realize that the child does not speak a single word. After much back and forth, little Lucy the two decide to Pamela, Tom's stepmother, to bring to Vermont.

Due to an engine failure they can not continue their journey and stay until the car is repaired, Chowder Inn. Where she met Tom Honey, the daughter of the owner. But the visit ends abruptly when a call they will snap back into reality. Harry Brightman is dead Nathan, who was initiated into the dark machinations of Harry decides unceremoniously back to New York to drive and take Lucy along with it. Nathan learns of the visit of the two men who Harry with a fake manuscript of Hawthorne's " The Scarlet Letter ", wanted to persuade her to hit the big coup. Also from the forebodings of Nathan Harry Brightman could not be deterred, for which he ultimately paid the price.

After the funeral, everything seems to run in normal paths again. But, as luck would have it, they find the will of Brightman. The Testament says that Tom and Rufus, lover, protege, HIV - positive drag queen and were favored and get everything. Until one day Honey comes on the scene and Tom married. You decide when to undertake Lucy. When the mother, Tom's sister Aurora, desperate speaks a message on the answering machine, Nathan decides with only vague clues to make the inaccurate location and an address Aurora locate and retrieve. It turns out that she is in the clutches of a fanatical fundamentalists that imprisons them.

He brings them back to Brooklyn. Once there, she moved into the house Nancy Mazzucchellis, with whom she starts a lesbian relationship in the course. Nathan has made ​​friends with her mother and carries with it a harmonious relationship. After a dinner at his home, he collapses. It is immediately brought into a hospital, where it is determined that the crash is due to an inflammation of the esophagus. He is on 11 September 2001, around his hour before the first plane flying into one of the towers of the World Trade Center, dismissed.

Expenditure

  • The Brooklyn Follies. Henry Holt, New York, 2005. ISBN 0-8050-7714-6 Translation: The Brooklyn Revue. Dt. by Werner Schmitz. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2006. ISBN 978-3-498-00066-0

Reviews

  • Gertrud Lehnert: To die to New York. Paul Auster, "The Brooklyn Revue", Germany radio culture, March 15, 2006.
  • Hubert Winkels: Paradise Lost. Why the Paul Auster principle is now finally failed. , Time, March 16, 2006.
  • Work of Paul Auster
  • Literary work
  • Literature (United States)
  • Literature ( English )
  • Literature ( 21st century)
  • Novel, epic
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