TABLE OF CONTENTS

PREFACE

PROLOGUE: Clearing the Air

PART ONE
AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS

THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE. (1982) “Everything Comes from Within and Moves Out”

“Portrait of an Invisible Man.” The Spectrum of a Human Being

“The Book of Memory.” Language and the Body

HAND TO MOUTH: A CHRONICLE OF EARLY FAILURE. (1997) “Permanently Penniless”

THE RED NOTEBOOK. (2002) Ars Poetica

WINTER JOURNAL. (2012) Memory and the Body

REPORT FROM THE INTERIOR. (2013) Becoming Human

PART TWO
NOVELS

THE NEW YORK TRILOGY. (1985–6) “Learning to Live with Ambiguity”

City of Glass. The Name and the Named

Ghosts. A Fable of Representation

The Locked Room. The Self-Destructive Text

IN THE COUNTRY OF LAST THINGS. (1987) Ephemerality

MOON PALACE. (1989) “The Song Is in the Step”

THE MUSIC OF CHANCE. (1990) “The Mechanics of Reality”

LEVIATHAN. (1992) The Fall

MR. VERTIGO. (1994) Levitating

TIMBUKTU. (1999) “The Pure Pleasure of Language”

THE BOOK OF ILLUSIONS. (2002) From Page to Picture

ORACLE NIGHT. (2003) “The World Is in My Head”

THE BROOKLYN FOLLIES. (2005) “An Escape from American Reality”

TRAVELS IN THE SCRIPTORIUM. (2006) One Dark Day of Amnesia: “The Writer Rewritten”

MAN IN THE DARK. (2008) One White Night of Insomnia: Confronting One’s Past

INVISIBLE. (2009) Three Seasons and an Epilogue

SUNSET PARK. (2010) Broken Things

COMPLETE LIST OF WORKS BY PAUL AUSTER

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