Disappearances: poems (1970-1979)

In an interview conducted in 1987 by the American critic Joseph Mallia, Paul Auster said: "All my work is a unity and change to prose was the last step in a slow natural evolution". Written throughout the seventies, the poetry of Paul Auster opens and develops the linguistic and thematic universe that forms its peculiar novelistic work. Of maturity and surprising expressive power, these poems explore key concepts of his fiction as are the problem of chance and identity, the distance between language and the world, the dissolution of the speech. "Disappearances" presents a selection of these poem and this is its third edition.