Long before Paul Auster became internationally famous with his novels, he published a collection of poems. These are dark, profound poems of a lonely individual, constantly searching for ultimate truths. In their interplay of playful intellectuality and philosophical depth, these poems from "The Invention of Solitude" serve as seed cells for Auster's novelistic work. For the first time, they are now available in this bilingual edition, also in German translation. A true discovery!.