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Language English Pages 160 pp OCLC 62421289 Publisher Henry Holt and Company | 3.2/5 Goodreads Publication date January 23, 2007 ISBN 0-8050-8145-3 Originally published 23 January 2007 Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Similar Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, Oracle Night, The Book of Illusions, The Music of Chance | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Travels in the Scriptorium is a novel by Paul Auster first published in 2007.
Contents
- Paul auster unique art book travels in the scriptorium novel artist michael bl mel
- Plot
- Reviews
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Elements from most past Auster novels all converge in this book: every character other than the protagonist, Mr. Blank, is taken from a previous novel, with yet more characters mentioned peripherally.
Paul auster unique art book travels in the scriptorium novel artist michael bl mel
Plot
An old man is disoriented within an unknown chamber and has no memory about who he is or how he has arrived there. He tries to understand something from the relics on the desk, examining the circumstances of his confinement and searching for reasons and a method to exit.
Determining that he is locked in, the man — identified only as Mr. Blank — begins reading a manuscript he finds on the desk, the story of another prisoner, set in an alternate world the man doesn't recognize. Nevertheless, the pages seem to have been left for him, along with a haunting set of photographs. As the day passes, various characters call on the man in his cell — vaguely familiar people, some who seem to resent him for crimes he can't remember — and each brings frustrating hints of his identity and his past. All the while an overhead camera clicks and clicks, recording his movements, and a microphone records every sound in the room. Someone is watching.