- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber (7 Jun 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571195865
- ISBN-13: 978-0571195862
- Product Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.4 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,624,317 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
The figure of Lulu - created by the playwright Frank Wedekind and immortalized by Louise Brooks in Pandora's Box - is one of the most seductive images in twentieth-century culture. In Lulu On The Bridge, Paul Auster plays with this image, creating not just a world within a world, but also alternative worlds where the variations on the themes of love and death are worked out eternally. Moving effortlessly between reality and the fiction of film-making, Paul Auster displays a mastery of form, as well as the ability to engage the emotions in a powerful way.
About the Author
Paul Auster is the best-selling author of Invisible, Man in the Dark, The Brooklyn Follies, The Book of Illusions, The New York Trilogy, among many other works. In 2006 he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Among his other honours are the Independent Spirit Award for the screenplay of Smoke and the Prix Medicis Etranger for Leviathan. He has also been short-listed for both the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award (The Book of Illusions) and the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction (The Music of Chance). His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have not been able to watch Lulu on the Bridge yet at the cinema because of an unlucky timing, but being an 'Austerian', I did not hesitate buying the screenplay out of curiosity and perhaps fanaticism. However, I still kept some distance in order to analyze properly the story itself. Despite all that, I have fallen another time under the charm of the story and the characters. As ususal, the reader (and probably the spestator) is sent in a world in which he (she) thinks he (she) has got the key of the mystery and finally has not. Things are never as simple as they seem to be. Paul Auster plays sometimes some tricks which he explains from time to time in order to dumbfound the reader (cf the French pun on 'Celia') but he mainly performs a magic show in which Izzy the ex-musician and Celia the actress/waitress are two engaging characters. The story is beautiful, clever, full of humanism and other symbols recurring in Auster's works (the dark room, the stone, the wall, the double...)that one does not need to know to appreciate the story. Then, open your book, listen to the music, let the story unfold under your eyes and perhaps you will feel 'More...connected.'
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Although I don't like Paul Auster's writting, I have to admitt that this book is very good indeed. Once you start reading this book you will find yourself trapped and you will not be able to leave it until you have finished reading it. Izzy and Celia (the main characters) take you into a world full of symbols and meanings, and before your eyes unfolds a breath-taking story.
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