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...book is structured around the encounters between an elusive narrator and Austerlitz, to whom Austerlitz tells his story in instalments, “speaking not so much to me as to himself,” says the narrator. So marginal is the narrator’s presence in the text that his voice is absorbed by his interlocutor’s story, which is reported without quotation marks, so that the two figures become virtually indistinguishable over the course of the narrative. Their chance meetings—in a Belgian cafe, on a ferry crossing the English Channel...
...York Trilogy” to more recent novels like 2004’s “Oracle Night” and now with “Invisible,” Auster continues to surround his novels’ protagonists in layers of text...
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...fearlessness that not infrequently borders on the suicidally reckless. He rarely keeps to agreed party lines, recently incurring the wrath of Conservative leader David Cameron by going dramatically off-message on the party's European Union policy last month, provoking a Cameron aide to send him a Mafia-style text message: "La vendetta è un piatto che va mangiato freddo," or "Revenge is a dish best eaten cold." Johnson, using the florid turn of phrase that is his hallmark, continues to insist his relationship with Cameron is one of "glutinous harmony." (Read "David Cameron: The U.K.'s Next Leader...