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Average rating4
Sinuously constructed in four interlocking parts, Invisible opens in New York City in the spring of 1967 when twenty-year-old Adam Walker, an aspiring poet and student at Columbia University meets the enigmatic Frenchman Rudolf Born, and his silent and seductive girlfriend Margot. Before long, Walker finds himself caught in a perverse triangle that leads to a sudden, shocking act of violence that will alter the course of his life.Three different narrators tell the story, as it travels in time from 1967 to 2007 and moves from New York to Paris and to a remote Caribbean island in a story of unbridled sexual hunger and a relentless quest for justice.With uncompromising insight, Auster takes us to the shadowy borderland between truth and memory, authorship and identity to produce a work of unforgettable power that confirms his reputation as one of America's most spectacularly inventive writers.
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i wish auster would do more with his set ups in these late meta fiction heavy novels. since he's bothered to configure the few povs, why not give us one more contradiction, one more revelation, one more epistemic mystery? thanks for the aperitif though
Between the sister Gwyn, the nemesis Born and the insipid Celine, I thought there was too much ado about nothing. Uninteresting Adam.
3'5 stars because I don't get the plot and the end doesn't help resolving doubt much.
However, I really enjoyed the three first parts and definetly wil read dsomething else of Paul Auster.
I must say also thatthe characters are very real.
Amd this is all. Just read it.