![]() ![]() Next came a big-picture, politically engaged novel, Leviathan, an American panorama then a fable about a boy who could fly, Mr Vertigo and now another fable, Timbuktu, about a dog. After a brief flirtation with dystopia, In the Country of Last Things, he shifted into the picaresque with Moon Palace and The Music of Chance. Then came The New York Trilogy, an intensely cerebral high-modernist triptych, short novels thick with literary allusion, aptly described as 'Kafka goes gumshoe'. He began as a poet and switched to prose in 1982 to write a memoir long before it was fashionable, a brilliant, unorthodox meditation on fatherhood called The Invention of Solitude. ![]() But Auster isn't hopeless and metamorphosis is a constant feature of his career. ![]()
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