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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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1 reviewsNew-York 1967. Un jeune aspirant poète rencontre un énigmatique mécène français et sa sulfureuse maîtresse. Un meurtre scelle bientôt, de N-Y à Paris, cette communauté de destins placée sous le double signe du désir et de la quête éperdue de justice. On se délecte des tribulations d'un jeune américain naïf et idéaliste confronté au secret et aux interdits. Roman de formation. Paul Auster interroge les ressorts de la fiction, au fil d'une fascinante réflexion sur le thème de la disparition et de la fuite.
