“He had lost his magic.”
This first sentence, as we know, concerned an actor in
The Fallen
of Philip Roth.
It could apply to Paul Auster.
Something broke in his house.
This is not new, but with
Baumgartner
, the decline is obvious.
It looks like a bad pastiche.
Obviously, the septuagenarian hero is a philosophy professor at Princeton.
We discover him at his office one morning.
He burns himself with a pan he left on the stove.
He has to call his sister.
We ring the bell.
She's the UPS delivery girl: he orders books that he won't read, just to have the pleasure of seeing her.
She looks like his wife Anna, who died ten years earlier.
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The phone rings: the husband of his domestic worker has severed two fingers with a circular saw.
There is a knock: the attendant comes to read the electricity meter.
Bad luck, Baumgartner falls down the stairs and bruises his knee, which causes
“a howl imitating the din of forty lynx pushing…
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