Oracle Night (Ay Adult - Auster)/Paul Auster (著) U.S. 定価: $23.00 定価: ¥2,510 価格: ¥2,134 OFF: ¥376 (15%) 発売予定日は 2003/12/01 です。 ただいま予約受付中です。 ハードカバー: 256 p ; サイズ(cm): 出版社: Henry Holt & Co ; ISBN: 0805073205 ; (2003/12/01)
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[190] The Book of Illusions From:schazzie REPLY 2003/03/08 23:32 印象的な書き出し
ポール・オースター(Paul Auster)の最新作『The Book of Illusions: A Novel』は、書き出しが非常に印象的です。この部分を読んだだけで、もう読者は作品世界に入り込んで ―― この物語の主人公へクター・マンと同じように ―― 、決して現実の世界に戻ってくることはないかもしれません。
Everyone thought he was dead. When my book about his films was published in 1988, Hector Mann had not been heard from in almost sixty years. Except for a handful of historians and old-time movie buffs, few people seemed to know that he had ever existed. (誰もが彼のことをもう死んだものと思っていた。彼の映画をめぐる私の研究書が出版された1988年の時点で、ヘクター・マンはほぼ60年消息を絶っていた。一握りの専門家と、古い映画のマニアを除けば、彼がかつて存在していたことすら知る人はほとんどないように思えた。[柴田元幸訳]) ―― Paul Auster 『The Book of Illusions』 ※2003年2月現在、邦訳未刊
But he didn't return, and from that point on it was as if Hector Mann had vanished from the face of the earth. (だが彼は帰ってこなかった。それを境に、へクター・マンはこの世界から消えてしまったように思えた。[柴田元幸訳]) ―― Paul Auster 『The Book of Illusions』 ※2003年2月現在、邦訳未刊
The Story of My Typewriter/Paul Auster (著), Sam Messer (著) U.S. 定価: $20.00 円相当額: ¥2,488 価格: ¥2,239 OFF: ¥249 (10%) この本の出版予定 2002/07 です。 ただいま予約受付中です。 ハードカバー - 72 p (2002/07) Distributed Art Publishers (DAP) ; ISBN: 1891024329 ; サイズ(cm): Book Description This is the story of Paul Auster's typewriter. The typewriter is a manual Olympia, more than 25 years old, and has been the agent of transmission for the novels, stories, collaborations, and other writings Auster has produced since the 1970s, a body of work that stands as one of the most varied, creative, and critcally acclaimed in recent American letters. It is also the story of a relationship. A relationship between Auster, his typewriter, and the artist Sam Messer, who, as Auster writes, "has turned an inanimate object into a being with a personality and a presence in the world." This is also a collaboration: Auster's story of his typewriter, and of Messer's welcome, though somewhat unsettling, intervention into that story, illustrated with Messer's muscular, obsessive drawings and paintings of both author and machine. This is, finally, a beautiful object; one that will be irresistible to lovers of Auster's writing, Messer's painting, and fine books in general. "It was never my intention to turn my typewriter into a heroic figure. That is the work of Sam Messer." Paul Auster