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product_id: 14065582
title: "The Invention of Solitude"
brand: "paul auster"
price: "$704"
currency: MXN
in_stock: true
reviews_count: 13
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# The Invention of Solitude

**Brand:** paul auster
**Price:** $704
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

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- **What is this?** The Invention of Solitude by paul auster
- **How much does it cost?** $704 with free shipping
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## Description

The Invention of Solitude

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Deep, beatiful book
  

*by L***A on Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2012*

First of all some words so you know something about me. My mother language is Spanish.I am reading "The invention of solitude" in English, on my kindle. Very useful to have in a touch the access to a very complete dictionary, so I can go through unusual meanings and uses of a word or expression when I find it in the text.I have read many books from  Auster, but none was like this, an essay.The author shares his experience since the news of his father's death, and his reflections through the process of taking care of his belongings. Deep thoughts about life and death, and the way each one's childhood experience shapes the personality.Haven't finished the book yet, but the first part is  deeply moving. Love  the author, feels like you are listening to a friend in an intimate talk.Will write again when I finish. I apologize for any mistake  in English, hope my vision is useful for you.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Good product
  

*by R***T on Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2023*

Book arrived in good shape, except for the underling and a few marginal notes, which was not mentioned in the book's description.  It also arrived on time.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Beautiful First Half
  

*by K***S on Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2011*

This book's first half is gorgeously vulnerable. Auster creates his father as a fascinating character, and the reader learns about him through Auster the adult writer/man finding his father through the objects he's left behind and also through Auster's memories as a boy.  What's so strange, then, is the second half of the book, which becomes overly artificed.  Auster writers about himself in the third person, calling himself "A.", and what follows is a distanced meditation on what memory might be. All of the vulnerability of the first half gives way to a nearly solipsistic second half. It's like Auster has decided to turn himself into his father and let the reader view him, but the reader is no longer allowed to sympathize with him. Truly, this second half seems a total intellectual invention of, alas, solitude, as the reader is held perpetually at arm's length.  Buy a used copy and read the first half.

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