Savannah

Nelson Mandela

Backing the Bid:

"There is no city like London. It is a wonderfully diverse and open city providing a home to hundreds of different nationalities from all over the world. I can't think of a better place than London to hold an event that unites the world."

Pourquoi n'est-il pas possible d'entrer a l'universite sans le bac en France (sauf en droit)?

C'est comme continuer a discriminer ceux qui n'ont pas pu finir l'ecole;
generation precedentes malchanceuses; immigrants ou venant de milieux sociaux defavorises. Unfair I say!

L'Universite:
C'est un peu s'occuper de soi, chercher ou on va mais aussi une reconnaissance sociale qui n'appartient plus qu'aux privilegies mais a ceux qui ont soif d'apprendre. Cela permet aussi d'eluminer un peu cette fracture des generations et la fracture sociale. Possibilite de changer de carriere professionnelle et le plaisir d'apprendre qui est immense.

Tout le monde a droit a la culture, mais il faut reparer les erreurs passees.

The Art of Hunger
"This collection includes essays on Kafka, Beckett and other 20th-century literary figures, and reflections by Auster on his own work - on the need to break down the boundary between living and writing, and on the use of certain genre conventions to penetrate matters of memory and identity. "

The Red Notebook
"A collection of interviews and essays in which the American writer Paul Auster reflects on the need to break down the boundary between living and writing, and on the use of certain genre conventions to penetrate matters of memory and identity."

The Invention of Solitude
"One day there is life . . . and then, suddenly, it happens there is death". So begins The Invention of Solitude, Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood. After the death of his own father, Auster discovers a 60-year-old family murder mystery that could account for the old man's elusive character. Later the book shifts from Auster's identity as son to his own role as father."

Hand To Mouth
"Hand To Mouth tells the story of a young writer's struggle to stay afloat. By turns poignant and comic, Paul Auster's memoir is essentially a book about money - and what it means not to have it. From one odd job to the next, from one failed scheme to another, Auster investigates his own stubborn compulsion to make art and, in the process, treats us to a series of remarkable adventures and unforgettable encounters. The book ends with three of the longest footnotes in literary history."

Disappearances: Selected Poems
"Working within the domain of consciously reduced elements, Auster pushes language to its breaking
point, locating the sayable within the shifting tumult of the real."


Fiction

The New York Trilogy
In The Country of Last Things
Moon Palace
The Music of Chance
Leviathan
Mr Vertigo
Timbuktu
The Book of Illusions
Oracle Night
The Brooklyn Follies

Film

The Music of Chance
Smoke
Blue In The Face
Lulu On The Bridge

Other:

Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
Pierre Clastres (French anthropologist) Translation

True Tales of American Life

Auggie Wren's Christmas Story

The Random House Book of 20th Century French Poetry (Vintage)

Grand Street 49: Hollywood (Summer 1994) by Dennis Hopper
(Contributor) Paul Auster

City of Glass : The Graphic Novel

I Thought My Father Was God: And Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project
by Paul Auster (Editor)

Collected Prose : Autobiographical Writings, True Stories, Critical Essays, Prefaces, and Collaborations with Artists

The Red Notebook: True Stories

The Station Hill Blanchot Reader
by Maurice Blanchot, Paul Auster (Translator)

The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert
by Joseph Joubert, Paul Auster (Translator)

Twenty Days with Julian and Little Bunny by Papa
by Nathaniel Hawthorne, Paul Auster (Introduction)

Double Game
by Sophie Calle, Paul Auster

The Story of My Typewriter
by Paul Auster, Sam Messer

Why Write?

A Tomb for Anatole
by Stephane Mallarme, Paul Auster

Purgatory