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“everybody! is it possible to think , all the story is in Zimmer's brain? after the airplane crashed, he was trynig to find a reason for going on.and it was Hector at first. he was alive because zimmer wanted him to. things was gonig on until that srange afternoon.the rain, wipers, the dog, accident. everything was ready for the first illusion. here the first character is coming into the story and you now what i am going to say then.at last nothing remained from them.and we are hearing the story from somebody we should not trust. i can not explain my mind completely here. but read the book again with this sight.tell me your opinion. is it foolishness to think in this way?”
“I have nothing to say about the style of the story. It somehow reminds me Murakami or Pamuk. But there are some descriptions I would definitely call "ugly" if not cliche for a good writer. For example in the page 110, this sentence made me feel awkward with its uniqueness of describing a love scene: She had come to his house on North Orange Drive at 3 o'clock on one Sunday afternoon and by five o'clock they were on the floor together, rolling around on the carpet and seeking out the holes and crevices in each other's bodies. ”
“Novelist Paul Auster is one of my favorite writers. The Book of Illusions tells the story of David Zimmer, a college professor trying to recover from the death of his wife and children in an airplane crash. One night he watches a silent movie featuring film star Hector Mann, who disappeared in the '30s. Zimmer becomes interested in Mann and goes on to experience unlikely events which Auster makes believable as he explore the meaning of images and illusion.”