Paul Auster is a charming Aquarius, and he knows it. He has the natural charisma of chi taken from birth with the distance of its signkeeping the torment of Scorpio ascendant at bay.
His gaze on the world is striking as if to collect clues on the meaning of our existence, following the role of chance that often recurs in his novels. He is an Aquarius who is very skilled in understanding that the only way to respond to the fatalism of life is to question it. Already at the age of 12 he began to compose poetry.
In his horoscope Mars in Aquarius and Venus in Sagittarius are the challenge to escape to Europe and breathe a more intense literary air. When he returned to America he married Lidya Davis, Daniel’s mother, their son. But Auster’s life is pierced by the shadow of restlessness.
Paul Auster was born on February 3, 1947 in Newark, United States (photo Anoush Abrar / 13 Photo / Contrasto).
It will be the divorce from his wife and the death of his father that leads him to write the first autobiographical novel The invention of solitude. Since then “writing is no longer an act of free choice but of survival”.
In 1981 he met the writer Siri Hustvedt of his life, second wife and mother of their daughter Sophie. From the success of New York Trilogy in ’87 to the last novel Baumgartner decades of abysmal personal joys and pains have passed.
“Baumgartner”, the latest book by Paul Auster (Einaudi)
Pluto in the house of solitude in Baumgartner takes him to courting old age with the expert writing of someone who has already experienced it all: bereavement and survival. Without missing the twist. A very Aquarian way of facing death with the breath of irony.
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