Man in the Dark (Hardcover) by Paul Auster

from conehead

Maybe I'm just to accustomed to modern day formulaic plot lines in movies and books, but this novel just seemed lazy to me. I always enjoy his writing, so I read it through, but in the end, I thought: "what was the point?" If you're going to abruptly end a parallel story, end it after 5 pages, no...

from rodrichards

I've read all of Auster's novels and love his sensibility. This particular one is not his best; the plot is a little rocky, more of the seams show through than usual, but it had enough of his reflective musings about the stories we tell ourselves to keep me with him. Don't start with this one, bu...

from RSCDoug

Anything Auster pumps out, I pick up...I was introduced to his literary genius in college when I read 'The New York Trilogy'...I was immediately swept up in the language and flow of his works.This book, and Brooklyn follies are very similar in that they deal with a similar theme...Life goes on......

from Paulagraph

Man in the Dark is a short novel (180 pages) composed of one long chapter. I would categorize it as meta-fiction once removed or fictionalized meta-fiction (In this it reminds me of 2 novels I read last year: Queen of the Prisons of Greece, by Osman Lins and Diary of a Bad Year, by J.M. Coetzee)....

from sandpiper

I'm afraid I struggled with this a bit. I love most of Auster's work, but this one just didn't quite do it for me. It was rather self-referential; but then much of Auster's work is. I do wonder, however, how a newcomer to Auster would view this book. Often his self-references come across as somet...