Phantom Book

The Book of Illusions

Everyone thought he was dead. Comedy genius Hector Mann, a dazzling rising star in Hollywood in the 1920s, suddenly ran away from home one day and never returned. For sixty years, his mysterious disappearance remained a mystery. Literature professor David Zimmer, having lost his wife and children in a plane crash, fell into a quagmire of grief and despair until he stumbled upon a fragment of an old Hector film. Across a vast abyss of oblivion, the two fates became inextricably linked. Determined to review every extant Hector film, Zimmer traveled extensively to archives across Europe and America, deeply captivated and captivated by Hector's elegant and witty work. However, just after Zimmer's monograph on Hector's films was published, he received a letter from Sueno, New Mexico, claiming Hector was still alive and eager to meet him. When Zimmer was hesitating, a mysterious woman suddenly appeared in his secluded cottage and eventually forced him to embark on a phantom journey full of fog and dangers...
"A novel that constantly surprises", "The Book of Illusions" tells the story of death within death, a story within a story, about loss, silence and self-redemption: "You have to die first to know how to live."
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【Recommended by all circles】
For twenty-five years, Paul Auster has been one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature. —The New York Review of Books
"The Book of Illusions" overflows with warmth and is illuminated by the seasoned wisdom of its narrator. This beautiful and elegant novel is perhaps Auster's best yet. —Peter Carey

2018-12-01

九州出版社

Ideal Country

371

9787510873164