The document provides a summary of the plot of the novel "Man in the Dark" by Paul Auster. It describes the two main characters, August Brill and Owen Brick, whose stories are intertwined. August Brill is recovering from an accident at his daughter's house and tells himself a story about Owen Brick, who wakes up in a parallel world where America is at war and is told he can end the war by killing August Brill. However, this fictional world Brick finds himself in appears to be becoming reality.

1. MAN IN THE DARK By PAUL AUSTER

3. Auster is writer, cinema director and cinema scriptwriter.

4. It was at the age of 12 years old when he started to write his first book because his uncle has a library and he was quite interested in it.

6. Poetry

7. Screenplays

9. Owen Brick is the protagonist of this parallel word, a young man who wakes up in a hole in the ground transported between Americas. Brick felt confused and he considered if itwasan imaginary or a real world .He didn’t know what to do but he is told by another character in the story that he can stop the war if he finds Brill and kills him: the civil war is only happening because an old man is thinking it up. However this fictitious world is becoming real.

11. From my point of view, the beginning of the book is a bit unclear. But along the book you’ll be able to distinguish both parallel stories that are happening and you try to imagine it.

12. Related to the theme of the book, I’m in favor of create new stories to forget our real life and our problems. But not create bad ones in which we include other people.

13. It is worth reading and I recommend you to read it weather you like thriller books.