We tend to say that an author’s last book before his death proves to be prophetic of his biological end. Inevitable temptation, which can be verified both by the events of the author’s life and by the events of his book. Does the same happen with Paul Auster’s (1947-2024) novel “Baumgartner”, recently published by Metaichmio in a very good translation by Ioanna Iliadis? Yes, the book is constantly talking about death and mourning – it’s like watching the living reality from our perspective of a final act or an accomplished event. However, the novel’s central – and utterly lonely – hero, Cy Baumgartner, who has passed his seventies (like Auster before he died) mourns not his own possible death, but the death of his wife with who had shared the best years of their lives. One scene in the course of the narrative says it all about him […]
Source: News Beast
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