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Title	:	Mr. Vertigo
Author	:	Paul Auster
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 318 pages
Published	:	June 2nd 1997 by Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag (first published April 1994)
Categories	:	Fiction. Literature. American

Mr. Vertigo Paperback | Pages: 318 pages

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Auf einem Jahrmarkt in Kansas spaziert im Jahre 1927 der zwölfjährige Waisenjunge Walter Clairborne Rawley durch die Lüfte. Es ist der Beginn einer wundersamen Karriere. Doch bald geraten Walt - frech, scharfzüngig und nie um einen Trick verlegen - und sein Lehrmeister Yehudi ins Visier derSchurken und Gangster Amerikas.
Paul Austers abenteuerlicher Roman ist ein Gleichnis von ökonomischen Aufstieg und moralischem Verfall, ein Spiel mit den Mythen und Idealen eines Landes, das sich noch unschuldig wähnt, doch längst durch Gier und Übermut gefährdet ist.

Present Books In Pursuance Of Mr. Vertigo

Original Title:	Mr. Vertigo
ISBN:	3499221527 (ISBN13: 9783499221521)
Edition Language:	German
Characters:	Walt Rawley, Master Yehudi., Aesop, Mother Sioux, Uncle Slim

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For Your Own GoodWhat is this thing? A parable of spiritual self-development? A re-telling of the Wizard of Oz from the point of view of the Wicked Witch? A case study in Stockholm Syndrome? Whatever Auster meant it to be, it is uninspiring, unedifying, and, as far as I can tell, meaningless - a collection of miscelaneous writerly nits and pieces dumped in the same bin bag of a novel because the mess was getting underfoot. It may be a dot on the literary map of Austers journey but not much more.

This is the story of a boy who is teached to levitate by an Hungarian man. As a background, the author describes America's era before Depression and after World War II.5* Leviathan4* Moon Palace5* The New York Trilogy2* Winter Journal4* The Book Of Illusions4* The Music of Chance4* Mr. VertigoTR TimbuktuTR InvisibleTR The Brooklyn Follies

Once again if it had not been for the 1001 list this is a book that I would never have read and that it would have been a shame. To be brutally frank I had never previously heard of Paul Auster let alone Mr Vertigo.Initially it took me a little while to get into this book and I also found it a little hard to particularily like any of the main characters but as I got further into the book the more it and they grabbed me, so much so that I found it a little hard to put down at the end. The fact

This was my second Auster book and I read it about a year ago now. It's a magical realism type affair which features the main character Walt who meets a mysterious Master Yeuhdi character who takes him under his arm and agrees to train him...to flipping fly! That's not a spoiler by the way as it states this in the book description. They end up living together with some other characters and Walt's grueling training starts, his zany new master determined for him to succeed. The first two thirds of

I'm not sure how I feel about this book yet so I hope that writing a review will help. From what I can tell there are two things going on. First, it's a story about a boy who learns how to fly. Meet Walter: a begging, thieving, loudmouth little rascal. Austere uses Walter to narrate his story, constructing his story as a fictional memoir . What makes the book interesting is what makes Walter interesting -- that he can fly. Flight becomes Walter's passion and purpose in life -- the story

I wish I could suit myself with simply writing, "The man is a genius," and letting my review at that, because that is what Paul Auster is absolutely deserving of. 1994's Mr. Vertigo is nothing short of astounding in its breadth and vision, encompassing a nation's loss of wonderment and innocence in the story of a poor boy from St. Louis who learns to fly.Walt is a Holden Caufield of another era--a down and out, harsh little man in a boy's body, trying to keep a step ahead of the game he's

For Your Own GoodWhat is this thing? A parable of spiritual self-development? A re-telling of the Wizard of Oz from the point of view of the Wicked Witch? A case study in Stockholm Syndrome? Whatever Auster meant it to be, it is uninspiring, unedifying, and, as far as I can tell, meaningless - a collection of miscelaneous writerly nits and pieces dumped in the same bin bag of a novel because the mess was getting underfoot. It may be a dot on the literary map of Austers journey but not much more.