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American novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter (1947-2024)
Also known as: Paul Benjamin, Paul Benjamin Auster, Paul Queen, Пол Бенджамин Остер, بول أوستر, 폴 오스터
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Siri Hustvedt1955–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetCerebral literary fiction set largely in New York, exploring identity, art, perception and the instability of the self. (AI reason)
Haruki Murakami1949–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetSolitary protagonists drift through uncanny, coincidence-driven plots that blur reality and metafiction. (AI reason)
Don DeLillo1936–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetPostmodern American fiction probing language, chance, paranoia and urban alienation. (AI reason)
Italo Calvino1923–1985ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetPlayful metafictional structures that interrogate storytelling, authorship and the act of reading. (AI reason)
Patrick Modiano1945–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetSpare, haunting investigations into memory, lost identity and missing persons that recall anti-detective fiction. (AI reason)
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Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetLabyrinthine, philosophical fictions about doubles, mirrors, labyrinths and the nature of texts. (AI reason)
Enrique Vila-Matas1948–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetEssayistic metafiction obsessed with writers, disappearance and the boundaries between literature and life. (AI reason)
- W. G. Sebald1944–2001ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yet
Meditative, genre-blending prose about memory, wandering and the uncanny echoes of the past. (AI reason)
Jonathan Lethem1964–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetBrooklyn-rooted novels mixing literary fiction with detective and genre play. (AI reason)
Nicole Krauss1974–ReportAI suggestion, no reader data yetInterlocking narratives about writers, lost manuscripts and identity, with a Brooklyn literary sensibility. (AI reason)
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- The Book of Illusions (2002)
- Hand to Mouth (1997)
- Oracle Night (2003)
- The New York Trilogy (1999)