The New Girl By Paul Auster

The Brooklyn Follies – Paul Auster I. Short Biography Paul Benjamin Auster was born on February 3, 1947 in Newark, New Jersey. His father, Samuel Auster, was a landlord; his mother, Queenie was about 13 years younger than her husband; the marriage was not a happy one. When Auster was about 3, his mother gave birth to a daughter; sadly by the time she was five it was apparent that she was psychologically unstable, and later suffered mental breakdowns. Auster's passion for reading began when

Also by Paul Auster Novels The New York Trilogy (City of Glass • Ghosts • The Locked Room) • In the Country of Last Things • Moon Palace • The Music of Chance • Leviathan • Mr. Vertigo • Timbuktu • The Book of Illusions • Oracle Night Nonfiction White Spaces • The Invention of Solitude • The Art of Hunger • Why Write? • Hand to Mouth • The Red Notebook • Collected Prose Screenplays 3 Films: Smoke, Blue in the Face, Lulu on the Bridge Poetry Unearth • Wall Writing • Fragments from Cold

Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies: résumé et analyse. Overture. Summary. The narrator leaves Westchester to Brooklyn, to die there. He had lived in Brooklyn when he was a little boy (before the age of three), but doesn’t remember anything. He rents an apartment near Prospect Park. He wants nothing but being alone and quiet. He has sold his house after his divorce, and so has no problem with money. He was an insurance agent, but doesn’t know what to do now. His daughter Rachel (a researcher

1. The room where the scene takes place is the kitchen: there is a stove, an oven and other kitchen equipment in the background. It is definitely not a sitting-room or a bedroom since there is no sofa, and no bed. 2. The room is rather dark, the colours of the room are subdued. The decor is conventional. All this contributes to the rather sombre, tense atmosphere that prevails. 3. The light is dim, the curtains are half-drawn, so it is natural to assume that this scene is taking place in the evening

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OF ENGLISH LITERATURE I – FROM THE MIDDLE AGES TO THE ELIZABETHAN ERA I-1 – THE MIDDLE AGES Beowulf is supposedly the oldest literary work in the English-speaking world. It is an anonymous work of which only a manuscript remains. It is an epic, a long narrative poem celebrating the great deeds of the hero in a ceremonious style. It was written between the 8th and 11th centuries in Old English. The story is set in Scandinavia, in the Anglo-Saxon world. The eponymous hero travels great distances

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