Oracle Night
by Paul Auster · first published 2003
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A novelist recovers from an accident. He begins to write again, after buying a blue portugese notebook. The words flow, but at some point, strange things begin to happen: his beloved wife behaves strangely, fiction and reality get mixed up, and what about this strange stationary shop where he bought the notebook? It disappears over night.
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…don't translate well... Has anyone else seen an interesting or novel way of doing footnotes on the internet? (unrelated, but if anyone wants a fascinating example of footnotes in meta-fiction, the novel Oracle Night by Paul Auster has entire subplots and even another "book" hidden in the footnotes)
on “Telescopictext” ↗This is a fascinating subject. I recommend the novel "Oracle Night" by Paul Auster for its treatment of this topic. At the core of "Oracle Night" is a short passage from Dashiell Hammett's "The Maltese Falcon," reproduced in full here: http://www.fallingbeam.org/beam.htm.…
on “Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What Happened” ↗What a fascinating read. Thank you for the pointers. Oracle Night will be the first book I buy for my new Kindle, which arrives in Buenos Aires on Friday. Speaking of which, the international Kindle makes dramatic, life-altering geographic purges all-the-more palatable…
on “Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What Happened” ↗