Collected Prose

Possessed of a towering international reputation but whose talents are frequently overlooked in his homeland, Paul Auster is a rare breed of American writer.

Generally classed as a postmodernist, with clear existentialist and even absurdist tendencies, he is obsessed with the strangeness of life, and is best known for such stylistically daring novels as The Music of Chance, The Book of Illusions and the acclaimed New York Trilogy.