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Paul auster 4321 reviews6/2/2023 ![]() ![]() His grandson, known simply as Ferguson, is born into a postwar America ripe with possibility, so ripe that a single lifetime will not suffice. In the administrative fluster of Ellis Island, a Russian Jew is comically renamed in the immigration queue. The question is whether 4321, seven years in the making, is excellent or simply enormous. ![]() When a novel is as thick as it is tall, size is assumed to be a corollary for ambition. At almost 900 pages, the sheer physical heft of it is impossible to ignore. We have googly eyes for gargantuan statements.’ Paul Auster’s long-awaited novel, 4321, is a gargantuan statement. The American critic Adam Gopnik writes: ‘Nothing is more American than our will to make the enormous do the work of the excellent. ![]()
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