A review by suncanstone
The Invention of Solitude by Paul Auster

I am not the greatest Auster fan, and I think that after this book I will stay put. The book has two stories. The first is the Portrait of an invisible man, and this one I quite liked. It is a hommage to his father, written after his father died. And it has got something personal in it, something that reveals the human in the writer and shows his attitude towards life and the passing of it. The second story The book of memory was not that much to my taste. It was like a collage of various bits and bobs that he remembers stuck together in various bits and bobs that belong into the collective memory. However, I found it a bit too bit & bobby for my liking and struggled to get through the text, because once I start...