The Invention of solitude, by Paul Auster

I began an obituary of Paul Auster who died earlier this month, describing how I discovered this book among the disorder of my bookshelves. The slim volume turned up, apparently unread, fresh from purchase at a time before the instant gratification of an Amazon purchase was possible.

In the days that followed, I have read the book initially  to engage with what one reviewer had described as ‘a remarkable sustained piece of writing: beneath Auster's controlled tone – literary, cerebral– the passion and anguish are finely mediated’.

Auster’s memoir remains painfully relevant today. Its journey explores the sudden death of his father’s life in part one, ‘Portrait of an Invisible man’ , and the subsequent sense made of it in part two, ‘The book of memory’.  It is also a fascinating glimpse into an author’s creative battle to arrive at the final product.

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