5/13/2023 0 Comments 4321 paul auster review![]() ![]() And these lives often share some skeletal elements with Auster’s own boyhood: post-World War II New Jersey, sports, Columbia University, writing, French language study. “The idea came to me to tell one life as four parallel lives,” Auster explains. Award-winning author Paul Auster’s latest-and longest-work of fiction, the künstlerroman 4 3 2 1, posits such thoughts as the basis of its plot: four parallel stories of Archibald Isaac Ferguson. We live our lives mostly in the moment, but also attendant to the question of what if?- what if we had lived in that town rather than the one I know? what if my father (or mother) had died? what if my parents had divorced? what if I had attended school X rather than school Y? what if I had accepted that offered job? Such speculative lines of thought are wisps of thinking in which we all indulge. ![]()
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