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.
'_Travels in the Scriptorium _returns to . . . the nihilistic gaiety
of Beckett (in particular _Krapp_) or the sub-dermal violence of
Pinter.' _New Statesman_
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ISBN
9780571266753
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok
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