Abstract
What we have here is an extract form the novel The Brooklyn Follies, written by Paul Auster and published in 2005. Here, we are in the 1st half of the novel and 3 characters are present: Tom, Nathan and Harry. Nathan, the main character of the book, is Tom's uncle, and Harry is Tom's employer. The scene is set in a French restaurant in Brooklyn, and as the title indicates, they are eating and drinking. We can also indentify that the passage is written as a play, maybe to put the emphasis on speech. Indeed, although they seem to be having fun, they are talking about serious matters such as the human conditions. So we may wonder in what ways the passage is representative of the whole novel.
