Invisible (en español)

by Paul Auster, Benito Gómez Ibáñez (Translator)

Overview

Una inquietante novela sobre el límite entre la realidad y la ficción, sobre la mentira, el deseo y el amor.

En 1967, Adam Walker, un aspirante a poeta y estudiante de la Universidad de Columbia, asiste a una fiesta donde conoce a una enigmática pareja formada por el sofisticado Rudolf Born y la silenciosa y seductora Margot. En poco tiempo, Walker se encuentra atrapado en un triángulo perverso que tras un repentino acto de violencia alterará el curso de su vida para siempre.

Tres narradores diferentes cuentan la historia de Invisible, una novela que viaja en el tiempo, desde 1967 hasta 2007, y se traslada de Morningside Heights a la orilla izquierda de París y, de allí, a una isla remota en el Caribe. Una obra sobre la ira juvenil, el hambre sexual y la incesante búsqueda de la justicia.

Con una visión intransigente, Auster nos ubica en el borroso límite entre la verdad y la memoria, entre la autoría y la identidad, para producir una obra de poder inolvidable que confirma su reputación como «uno de los autores norteamericanos con la imaginación más prodigiosa».

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788432234729
Publisher:	Planeta Publishing Corporation
Publication date:	01/15/2019
Series:	Biblioteca Paul Auster
Sold by:	Planeta
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	1,015,319
File size:	573 KB
Language:	Spanish

About the Author

Paul Auster fue escritor, traductor y cineasta. Entre sus obras destacan La invención de la soledad (1982); La trilogía de Nueva York (1987); El Palacio de la Luna (1989); Leviatán (1992); Tombuctú (1999); El libro de las ilusiones (2002); La noche del oráculo (2003); Brooklyn Follies (2005); Sunset Park (2010); Diario de invierno (2012); 4 3 2 1 (2017); La llama inmortal de Stephen Crane (2021); Un país bañado en sangre (2023), en colaboración con Spencer Ostrander, y Baumgartner (2024). Escribió los guiones de las películas Smoke (1995) y Blue in the Face (1995), en cuya dirección colaboró con Wayne Wang, y los de Lulu on the Bridge (1998) y La vida interior de Martin Frost (2007), que dirigió en solitario. Editó el libro de relatos Creía que mi padre era Dios (2001) y su obra poética está reunida en el tomo Poesía completa (2012). Fue también autor de Una vida en palabras (2018), un volumen que recoge sus conversaciones con la profesora I. B. Siegumfeldt sobre su obra y el oficio de escribir.   Recibió numerosos galardones, entre los que destacan el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras, el Premio Médicis por la novela Leviatán, el Independent Spirit Award por el guion de Smoke y el Premio al mejor libro del año del Gremio de Libreros de Madrid por El libro de las ilusiones. Fue nombrado miembro de la American Academy of Arts and Letters y Comandante de la Orden de las Artes y las Letras francesa. Su obra está traducida a más de cuarenta idiomas.

Hometown:

Brooklyn, New York

Date of Birth:

February 3, 1947

Place of Birth:

Newark, New Jersey

Education:

B.A., M.A., Columbia University, 1970

Editorial Reviews

As soon as you finish Paul Auster's Invisible you want to read it again. And not because, as sometimes with his novels…you suddenly suspect, at the very end, that you haven't properly understood a word of what has gone before. You want to reread Invisible because it moves quickly, easily, somehow sinuously, and you worry that there were good parts that you read right past, insights that you missed. The prose is contemporary American writing at its best: crisp, elegant, brisk. It has the illusion of effortlessness that comes only with fierce discipline. As often happens when you are in the hands of a master, you read the next sentence almost before you are finished with the previous one…if, like me, part of why you read is the great pleasure of falling in love with a novel, then read Invisible. It is the finest novel Paul Auster has ever written.
—The New York Times

Clancy Martin

"I sometimes confuse my thoughts about the world with the world itself," says one character at the end of Invisible. "I'm sorry if I offended you." Some undoubtedly will be offended; you either enjoy the dizzy feeling you get from being lost in the funhouse, or you feel queasy and head for the exit. One hopes that, in this case, readers will stay for the duration. The pleasures found inside are well worth the labor required to uncover them.
—The Washington Post

Jeff Turrentine

In his latest, Auster is in classic form, perhaps too perfectly satisfying the contention of his wearied protagonist: “there is far more poetry in the world than justice.” Adam Walker, a poetry student at Columbia in the spring of 1967, is Auster's latest everyman, revealed in four parts through the diary entries of a onetime admirer, the confessions of his once-close friend, the denials of his sister and Walker's own self-made frame. With crisp, taut prose, Auster pushes the tension and his characters' peculiar self-awareness to their limits, giving Walker a fractured, knowing quality that doesn't always hold. The best moments from Walker's disparate, disturbing coming-of-age come in lush passages detailing Walker's conflicted, incestuous love life (paramount to his “education as a human being,” but a violation of his self-made promise to live “as an ethical human being”). As the plot moves toward a Heart of Darkness–style journey into madness, the limits of Auster's formalism become more apparent, but this study of a young poet doomed to life as a manifestation of poetry carries startling weight. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly

Auster's 15th novel at first may sound like another story about the familiar themes the writer's fans have come to expect: Brooklyn and New York, bohemian protagonists and their enigmatic sidekicks, meaningful quests for truth, and convoluted plots realistic enough to keep you from second-guessing the actions of the characters. Indeed, the story incorporates all such elements: divided into four distinct parts, told by three different narrators, and spanning 40 years, it is centered on the relationship among an aspiring Columbia University student-poet, a mysterious professor, and the professor's girlfriend that starts out as friendship but ends in manipulation and murder. Whether such themes still excite longtime Auster fans is less important than his still remarkably strong storytelling—perhaps even more so than in recent works of fiction—that his characters are still unpredictable and full of passion for life, and that once we start reading those masterfully bare sentences, we don't want to stop. VERDICT If you've never read Auster, this is a great place to start and work your way backward to such classics as the City of Glass and Leviathan. If you've been a fan for a long time, you will not be disappointed.—Mirela Roncevic, Library Journal

Library Journal

Many readers familiar with the work of Paul Auster consider him to be one of the most profound and provocative of contemporary novelists, a literary magician, a master of making fiction about the art-or the sleight-of-hand illusion-of making fiction. Auster attracted a loyal following in the mid-1980s for what was subsequently known as his New York Trilogy-an elliptical trio of genre subversions and meditations on identity-but his reviews have been mixed in the two decades since the subsequent Moon Palace and The Music of Chance. Now comes Invisible, a novel of such virtuosity and depth that it should not only unite the faithful in a hallelujah chorus, it deserves to draw legions of converts as well. More than a return to form, this might be Auster's best novel yet, combining his postmodern inquiries into the nature of fiction and the essence of identity-the interplay between life and art-with a thematic timelessness in its narrative of virtue and evil, guilt and redemption. If this isn't quite Auster's Crime and Punishment, it could be his Notes from the Underground. It's also a novel he couldn't have written a couple of decades ago, during what was previously considered his peak. Though it concerns a 20-year-old, literary-minded student at Columbia University in 1967-when the literary-minded Auster was the same age at the same university-its narrative reflects the autumnal perspective of four decades later, with a protagonist whose life has taken different turns than Auster's. In fact, there are three distinct narrative voices, as sections employ the first-person "I," the second-person "you" and the third person "he" in relating the story of how the student's encounter with a visitingprofessor from Paris and his silent, seductive girlfriend changes the lives of all three and others as well. The labyrinth of plot and narrative also includes the student's beautiful sister, a mother and daughter in France through whom he seeks atonement and a fellow Columbia alum who has become, like Auster, a successful writer. There are sins, obsessions, a corpse and a thin line between fantasy and memory. To reveal more would rob the reader of the discoveries inherent within this novel's multilayered richness. Auster writes of "the obsessive story that has wormed its way into your soul and become an integral part of your being." This is that story.

Kirkus Reviews