Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Nowhere Man

Nowhere Man is a multilayered narrative portrait of a Bosnian boy by the name of Jozef Pronek. The diverse voices in the chapters of the book intercept to paint the multiple faces of Pronek. He is a man with many fates, but none that is coherent; he is a man with many homelands, but none that makes him feel home. The voices of the narrators trace Pronek in Sarajevo, Kiev, Lvov, Chicago, even Shanghai. Displaced from his home because of the war, Pronek never finds one place to live in, one job to work, one girlfriend to love. Even his sexuality is on the verge of the ambiguous. In this beautifully written text, through which unique images chase each other hastily like drops of mercury, Hemon reveals his skill to give an expression of the inexpressible state of the migrant, the nowhere man. And he does that in a second language - one that relates to his home only by the image of the missing home in the nowhere place in which the author lives.



Friday, May 22, 2009

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Does Your Kid Have a Drum Set?

When asked the above question, the wife of Paul Auster answers:


- No, that's Paul writing.


An interview by Granta magazine about the last book of fiction by Paul Auster - Invisible.




Granta Paul Auster Interview from Granta magazine on Vimeo.