Name: La Musica del Azar (in Spanish)
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Author: Paul Auster
ISBN: 9788433980762

Type

Physical Book

Author

Paul Auster

Publisher

Anagrama

Collection

OTRA VUELTA DE TUERCA

Year

2021

Language

Spanish

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

140 x 220

Weight

0.34

ISBN

9788433980762

ISBN13

9788433980762

Edited in

España

Edition No.

Synopsis "La Musica del Azar (in Spanish)"

Cuando Jim Nashe es abandonado por su mujer, se lanza a la vida errante. Antes ha recibido una inesperada herencia de un padre que nunca conoció y que le permitirá vagabundear por América en un Saab rojo, el mejor coche que nunca tuvo. Nashe va de motel en motel, goza de la velocidad, vive en una soledad casi completa y experimenta la gozosa y desgarradora seducción del desarraigo absoluto. Tras un año de esta vida, y cuando apenas le quedan diez mil dólares de la herencia, conoce a Jack Pozzi, un jovencísimo jugador profesional de póquer. Los dos hombres entablan una peculiar relación y Jim Nashe se constituye en el socio capitalista de Pozzi. Una sola sesión de póquer podría hacerles ricos. Sus contrincantes serán Flower y Stone, dos curiosos millonarios que han ganado una fabulosa fortuna jugando a la lotería y viven juntos como dos modernos Bouvard y Pecuchet. A partir de aquí, la novela abandona el territorio de la «novela de la carretera» americana, y se interna en el dominio de la literatura gótica, entre Kafka y Beckett. Nashe y Pozzi penetran en un ámbito sutilmente terrorífico, y la morada de los millonarios se convertirá en una peculiar prisión, cuyos ilusorios límites y leyes no menos ilusorias deberán descubrir.

Paul Auster

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Paul Auster was a writer, translator, and filmmaker. Among his works are The Invention of Solitude (1982); The New York Trilogy (1987); Moon Palace (1989); Leviathan (1992); Timbuktu (1999); The Book of Illusions (2002); Oracle Night (2003); Brooklyn Follies (2005); Sunset Park (2010); Winter Journal (2012); 4 3 2 1 (2017); The Immortal Flame of Stephen Crane (2021); A Country Bathed in Blood (2023), in collaboration with Spencer Ostrander, and Baumgartner (2024). He wrote the screenplays for the films Smoke (1995) and Blue in the Face (1995), co-directing with Wayne Wang, and for Lulu on the Bridge (1998) and The Inner Life of Martin Frost (2007), which he directed alone. He edited the short story collection I Thought My Father Was God (2001) and his poetic work is collected in the volume Complete Poetry (2012). He was also the author of A Life in Words (2018), a volume that collects his conversations with Professor I. B. Siegumfeldt about his work and the craft of writing.
He received numerous awards, including the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, the Médicis Prize for the novel Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, and the Best Book of the Year Award from the Madrid Booksellers Guild for The Book of Illusions. He was named a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. His work is translated into more than forty languages. He has received numerous awards, including the Médicis Prize for the novel Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke, the Best Book of the Year Award from the Madrid Booksellers Guild for The Book of Illusions, the Qué Leer Award for Oracle Night, and the Leteo Award; he was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award for The Book of Illusions and the PEN/Faulkner Award for The Music of Chance.
In 2006 he received the Prince of Asturias Award for Literature. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters of France. His work is translated into more than forty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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