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This book is an homage to Paul Auster, my hero, one of those artists whose oeuvre defies labeling. Decades ago, when I set out to write a monograph on his early work in Hungarian, The Invention of Solitude was my major source of inspiration. After last year, when I got the chance to translate it, I decided to publish everything I unearthed about the distinctive poetics conceived by an unsuccessful ‘bookish boy,’ who is now both revered as an acclaimed filmmaker and a prize-winning author with a profound literary legacy. My scholarly aspiration was simply to invite a wider...