Invention of Solitude

Invention of Solitude

&#39;One day there is life . . . And then, suddenly, it happens there is death.&#39;<br /> <br /> So begins Paul Auster&#39;s moving and personal meditation on fatherhood, The Invention of Solitude. The first section, &#39;Portrait of an Invisible Man&#39;, reveals Auster&#39;s memories and feelings after the death of his father. In &#39;The Book of Memory&#39; the perspective shifts to Auster&#39;s role as a father. The narrator, &#39;A.&#39;, contemplates his separation from his son, his dying grandfather and the solitary nature of writing and story-telling.<br /> <br /> With all the keen literary intelligence familiar from The New York Trilogy or Sunset Park, Paul Auster crafts an intensely intimate work from a ground-breaking combination of introspection, meditation and biography.