In “4 3 2 1” (Holt), Auster’s first novel in seven years and, at eight hundred and sixty-six pages, the longest by far of any book he has published, a single man’s life unfolds along four narrative arcs, from birth to early adulthood. It’s an idea that resonates through the work of the writer Paul Auster, in whose fiction both selves and stories are precarious constructions, fascinating but unstable, more illusion than reality. Illustration by Sébastien PlassardĪccording to a currently popular line of philosophy, a self is merely the sum of all the stories we tell about a particular human body.
Auster’s summarizing style of narration closes like a fist around the proceedings.
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