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- proper noun Roman mythology The god of the south wind.
- proper noun The
south wind , especially when personified.
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"The merging of nostalgia with a Philip K. Dick conceit doesn't wholly succeed, but Auster's juxtaposition of two worlds is compelling and intellectually rigorous in Auster's trademark claustrophobic hall-of-mirrors fashion."
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Auster is a compelling storyteller, but his stories are assertions rather than persuasions.
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Auster is among those authors who engage in the post-modern tendency to leave it for the reader to determine what the story ultimately is or means.
Book Review: Invisible by Paul Auster « A Progressive on the Prairie 2009
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Auster is among those authors who engage in the post-modern tendency to leave it for the reader to determine what the story ultimately is or means.
A Progressive on the Prairie » Book Review: Invisible by Paul Auster » Print 2009
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Auster is a compelling storyteller, but his stories are assertions rather than persuasions.
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Auster is a compelling storyteller, but his stories are assertions rather than persuasions.
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Another author who reminds me of Auster is Steve Erickson (not to be confused with the hack Brit fantasy author).
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Paul Benjamin Auster was born on February 3, 1947 in Newark, New Jersey.
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But it's in the imagining that he place really comes alive; Auster is every bit as much the bard of Brooklyn as was Whitman.
The Brooklyn Follies: Summary and book reviews of The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster. 2005
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What do you think Auster is trying to convey to his audience with this reminder of the complicated and dangerous world in which we live?
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