Gravitation is an essential interaction on a cosmological scale, a wrinkle in the space-time fabric that makes the Earth capable of attracting what is located in its sphere of influence or gravitational field. After passing the tests of the initiation rite, the boy manages to neutralize the gravitational force and, with this, makes his body levitate first and then fly.
The natural tendency to lose order in a system, that is, entropy, comes with puberty; The hormonal system will interfere with his ability to fly, as if gravity had plotted its revenge at the most opportune moment. In this way, he becomes the attraction of an era. These are the years before the Great Depression, and the crosses are burning at the gallop of the Ku Klux Klan. The novel is titled Mr. Vertigo and tells us the adventures of this flying boy along the roads of deep North America. It is one of Auster's best novels, without a doubt, and his character is the boy whom Master Yehudi teaches to ignore the law of universal gravitation.