Name: 4321
ISBN: 9789023462606

Paul Auster

4321

clara

(He) was not yet five years old, but he already understood that the world consisted of two realms, the visible and the invisible, and that the things he couldn't see were often more real than the things he could.

what a grand and beautiful world it was if you didn't stop to look at it too closely

Aubrey had told him not to worry and just relax and be himself, he couldn't help feeling a little worried, and what did it mean to be himself anyway, he wondered, he had several selves inside him, even many selves, a strong self and a weak self, a thoughtful self and an impulsive self, a generous self and a selfish self, so many different selves that in the end he was as large as everyone or as small as no one, and if that was true for him, then it had to be true for everyone else as well, meaning that everyone was everyone and no one at the same time