La invención de la soledad

One morning in January 1979, the writer learned that his father had died. And he started writing The Invention of Solitude, which, as he says, was the beginning of everything. Between the memory, the reckoning and the investigation of the "family novel", this germinal work of the entire Austerian literary edifice is divided into two parts. In "Portrait of an invisible man" we discover the mystery of a murder that occurred in the family sixty years earlier, an episode that allows us to suspect the keys to the cold character of the dead father. In "The Book of Memory" Auster links his reflection on the role of his son with his own fatherhood and the loneliness (orphanhood?) Of the writer.