A review by tomhill
Invisible by Paul Auster

4.0

This is a strange book in many ways, and also reminded me of the later, shorter novels of Philip Roth, as this book mainly deals with a seemingly good natured but emotionally volatile young man, and tells his story as a story within a story. At the center of this book is a very taboo relationship and that's going to be a problem for a lot of readers I suspect. It's a very readable book, but in the end I'm not entirely sure I've wrapped my mind around the point Auster is making. So much of the book is about guilt and perception and memory, but Auster doesn't quite drive the point home the way Roth did in books like Indignation or Nemesis. Invisible is fascinating, not for everyone, and refuses to announce its conclusion too loudly.