Baumgartner. Paul Auster

“Baumgartner” is a meditative novel by Paul Auster about the fragility of life and the power of love that does not disappear even after death.

Seymour Baumgartner is a philosophy professor, a widower, a man trying to learn to live after the death of his wife. Many years have passed, but the memories of their life together do not fade - they fill his daily life, take him back to the past, force him to rethink love, creativity and the randomness of human fate again and again.

In Auster's characteristic manner, the novel combines intellectual depth with subtle emotionality. This is a story about how we form our own history from the fragments of memory, how we try to come to terms with loss and how, even in solitude, we continue to have an internal dialogue with those we loved.