'Baumgartner', by Paul Auster: an elegy on the decline of life. Written during his fight against cancer, the American writer's new novel weaves a comforting web of melancholy thanks to an old professor who avoids the loneliness of old age.
Auster unfolds his style by inventing that of his character, who recounts his life in the first person in the texts that appear in this multiple perspective novel. The book invites us to remember that fundamental question that Edward W. Said asked himself in 'On Late Style': How does the declineof life influence the work of an artist?