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www.theguardian.comA literary voice for the ages': Paul Auster remembered by Ian McEwan, Joyce Carol Oates and more
If his imagination seemed so spacious it was because he was as much a European as an American writer.
If he had Thoreau at his back, he also had Beckett.
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Joyce Carol Oates: He was a monumental literary presence' Photograph: Kyle Kielinski/The Guardian American writer Paul Auster was an anomaly: a thoroughly warm, witty, sympathetic, laughter-loving individual, with insatiable intellectual curiosity and a gift for friendship; at the same time, he was a monumental literary presence, somewhat intimidating for the zeal with which he immersed himself in his writing, near-overwhelming in the abundance of his creative energies.
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