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Paul benjamin auster is an american author and director whose writing blends absurdism, existentialism, crime fiction, and the search for identity and personal meaning in works such as the new york trilogy 1987, moon palace 1989, the music of chance 1990, the book of illusions 2002, and the brooklyn follies 2005. So while leviathan is a very good read by most standards, i wouldnt rate it among my toptier auster books. Essentially its a book about a writer, written by a writer about a writer. Paul auster paul auster is an american author whose writing is prevalently concerned with meaning, coincidence, identity and symbolism. If anything, this character study, with its unflinching delving into the place where idealism turns to violence, has become even more relevant in the years since austers book was first published. He approaches his writing as he has approached his life, to an extent.
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