Author Paul Auster
Travels in the scriptorium is a novel by Paul Auster first published in 2007.
Elements from most past Auster novels all converge in this book: every character other than
the protagonist, Mr. Blank, is taken from a previous novel, with yet more characters mentioned
peripherally.


An old man is disoriented in an unknown chamber and has no memory about who he is or how he
has arrived there. He tries to understand something from the relics on the desk, examining the
circumstances of his confinement and searching for reasons and a method to exit.

Determining that he is locked in, the man . identified only as Mr. Blank . begins reading
a manuscript he finds on the desk, the story of another prisoner, set in an alternate world
the man doesn't recognize. Nevertheless, the pages seem to have been left for him, along with
a haunting set of photographs. As the day passes, various characters call on the man in his
cell . vaguely familiar people, some who seem to resent him for crimes he can't remember . and
each brings frustrating hints of his identity and his past. All the while an overhead camera
clicks and clicks, recording his movements, and a microphone records every sound in the room.
Someone is watching

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