Although Auster appears as a character, he is not the narrator. The book is divided into four parts, telling a continuous story but each section told in a different voice and by several different narrators. The story of Daniel Quinn – a writer of mystery novels who, after a call from a man who has the wrong number, takes on a case meant for a private detective called Paul Auster by pretending to be him – is told in spare black-and-white drawings. Invisible is a novel by Paul Auster published in 2009 by Henry Holt and Company.

It is present in this graphic-novel version (published in America in 1994 and now in Britain) of City of Glass, the first part of Auster’s New York Trilogy. Adapted by Duncan Macmillan from the first novel in the New York Trilogy, and the graphic novel by Paul Karasik and David. The question of who is writing whose story is itself a theme that runs through Auster’s work. Paul Auster, one of America’s most enigmatic literary figures, has opened up about his life in a new memoir.

Each room, shared with his wife, the novelist Siri Hustvedt, is sparely and beautifully furnished. In The Story of My Typewriter – a book of paintings by the artist Sam Messer of the Olympia typewriter Paul Auster has written on since 1974 – Auster illuminates his relationship with the machine that has transmitted his work: ‘Letter by letter, I have watched it write these words.’ In part this fragmented notion of authorship reflects the nature of his collaboration with Messer, who compelled Auster to look at the typewriter anew with his muscular pictures – keys as seething teeth in one, the letters dancing between Auster’s hands to reveal the word ‘chance’ in another. Auster, 48, lives in a house where nothing is left to fate.

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