Paul Auster 2008

Blue in the Face

PaulAuster2008 — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:12:13 +0100

In the film there is a sense of nostalgia for past days, when a local shop (in this film a tobacconist’s) stood for a meeting place where people could share their ideas, pay...

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These are some comments about the film...

PaulAuster2008 — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:04:39 +0100

These are some comments about the film you are going to watch tomorrow. As you can see, as usual, reactions to Paul Auster’s films are different and controversial. So I am curious...

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The music of chance

PaulAuster2008 — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:47:42 +0100

Tomorrow’s film is based on Paul Auster’s novel “The Music of Chance”.
Below you will find two short reviews of the novel, so that you will get a general idea of what the...

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Food for thought (Travels in the Scriptorium)

PaulAuster2008 — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:10:56 +0100

I like this caricature of Paul Auster. I will use it whenever I want to give you some "food for thought" linked to things we debated over in class.
We discussed about some...

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Man in the Dark

PaulAuster2008 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 23:28:24 +0100

I know that most of you have not finished reading "Man in the Dark" yet. So, don't panick. This is just a post to invite you to start working on the novel, so that we can start...

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It's QUESTION time!

PaulAuster2008 — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:51:06 +0100

Dear Students,
If you want to be updated as to all the cultural events linked to Paul Auster, visit

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I want to tell you a story

PaulAuster2008 — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 17:40:27 +0100

Fiction is 'magnificently useless', but the act of creation and the pleasure of reading are incomparable human joys that we should savour.
Art is useless, at least when compared, say, to the work of...

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The Story of my Typewriter

PaulAuster2008 — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:13:05 +0100

Is there any meaningful object in your life you have had for a long time, you wouldn’t ever part from, you feel so attached to that you would suffer if it ever got lost, damaged or...

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Dedica Festival, Episode One

PaulAuster2008 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:18:52 +0200

Sorry for this belated post, but a teacher’s life is not so "calm" (or should I write "relaxed") as most people seem to think here in Italy. It is a sort...

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Dedica Festiva, Episode Two

PaulAuster2008 — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 16:04:26 +0200

Città di Vetro
22nd March, 2009, 11 a.m.
Inaugurazione della mostra di fumetti di Paul Karasik e David Mazzucchelli dall’omonimo romanzo di Paul Auster....

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