{"product_id":"환율의-대전환","title":"Baumgartner","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"info_text fw_bold\"\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003eWeaving together memory and life, loss and mourning, chance and moments,\u003cbr\u003ePaul Auster's brilliant final chapter\u003cbr\u003econveys poignant reflections on relationships and love that surround life.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"info_text\"\u003eThis is a record of absence filling life and enduring loss. There is natural sadness, but not only sadness. Within that loss, Baumgartner, and Auster, discover the power of imagination, \"no, simply, the power of dreams.\" Something fictional yet more powerful than truth. - Keum Jeong-yeon (Author)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaul Auster, an author who debuted with accolades such as \"Rising American Star\" and firmly established himself as a representative American writer, showcasing exceptional talent in both novels and essays for over half a century. His last full-length novel, \"Baumgartner,\" which he wrote while battling illness and sensing his end, has been published by Open Books with a translation by Jeong Yeong-mok. Released on the first anniversary of Paul Auster's passing, this work intimately captures loss and mourning, memory and the present, the flow of time and the meaning of life through the eyes of Cy Baumgartner, an aging professor on the verge of retirement. This novel, praised for evoking his early works while also demonstrating the mature reflections of an author at the end of his life, begins when Baumgartner, looking at a scorched pot after a series of strange incidents, suddenly has his memories of his wife, the love of his life, ignited.\u003cbr\u003eLike his surname, which means \"gardener,\" Baumgartner uncovers fragments of life intertwined like branches in the garden of memory, one by one. The novel traces the life of one character, from his first meeting with his wife as an aspiring poor writer in New York in 1968, through 40 years together, and his childhood in Newark, to his recollections of his father, a tailor and failed revolutionary, following his internal narrative. This final posthumous work, which concisely and delicately condenses Paul Auster's lifelong themes of writing, the truth and power created by fiction, and the aesthetics of chance, is all the more urgent and powerful because it is a novel about loss and memory written in the face of death. To readers who have now bid farewell to the novelist Paul Auster, \"Baumgartner\" says, \"That's the power of imagination, no, simply, the power of dreams.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0320\/3632\/3464\/files\/i9788932925042.jpg?v=1756706616\" alt=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"서점","offers":[{"title":"Baumgartner","offer_id":45120071696618,"sku":"바움가트너","price":22.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0320\/3632\/3464\/files\/Thumbnail_website_6_ee48baeb-da83-464d-8e21-d5991c4f35bf.jpg?v=1756706686","url":"https:\/\/kmall09.com.au\/en\/products\/%ed%99%98%ec%9c%a8%ec%9d%98-%eb%8c%80%ec%a0%84%ed%99%98","provider":"KMALL09","version":"1.0","type":"link"}