by Paul Auster · Actes Sud · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782742705726
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«Mr Vertigo» is Paul Auster's novel published in the Babel collection by Actes Sud, in paperback (398 pages, in French).
A nine-year-old orphan taken in from the streets of St. Louis is trained for three years by an enigmatic master to walk on air. The protagonist narrates in the first person his passage from begging to public spectacle, while Depression-era America looms through the Ku Klux Klan and gangsterism.
Translation from English by Christine Le Bœuf; volume 163 of the Babel collection. Originally published in 1994.
Winner of the Premi Protagonista Jove 2000 in the 16-17 age category, it is suitable reading for young people and adults.
Paul Benjamin Auster was an American writer, novelist, memoirist, poet, and filmmaker. His notable works include The New York Trilogy (1987), Moon Palace (1989), The Music of Chance (1990), The Book of Illusions (2002), The Brooklyn Follies (2005), Invisible (2009), Sunset Park (2010), Winter Journal (2012), and 4 3 2 1 (2017). His books have been translated into more than 40 languages.
