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Book of the dead The third in a trilogy of books I’ve read by Paul Auster recently – following ‘The Music of Chance‘ and ‘Mr Vertigo‘ – ‘The Invention of Solitude’ is a markedly different work, an autobiographical account divided into two parts: ‘Portrait of an Invisible Man’ and ‘Book of Memory’. The former is [...]

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Fairytales and bad dreams 8/10 Innocence is a mysterious piece of of largely visual filmmaking with an impressive, mostly child cast. It is clearly intended as an allegory or parable about the end of childhood and the awakenings of adolescence, and is not meant to be treated too literally (clearly some people are puzzled by [...]

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