“We were robbed of this dignity. I don’t know the whole story but I do know this: it’s wrong. » Two days after the death of the American writer, Siri Hustvedt is not angry. On Instagram, the novelist and essayist estimated Thursday May 2, 2024 to have been made ” fly “ her ” dignity “ when a friend of the couple first announced New York Times the death of her husband, as reported byAFP.
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Author Jacki Lyden announced the death
Paul Auster, prolific novelist, poet and film screenwriter, propelled onto the international literary scene by his New York trilogy, “died this evening, at home, surrounded by his loved ones”including Siri Hustvedt and their daughter Sophie Auster, at the age of 77, revealed the American daily on Tuesday, just before midnight, citing a family friend, the American author and journalist Jacki Lyden.
In March 2023, Siri Hustvedt announced that Paul Auster was suffering from lung cancer.
“I was naive”
“I was naive, but I imagined that I would be the person who would announce the death of my husband”regretted Siri Hustvedt, 69 years old, author of numerous novels and essays such as Blindfolded And A summer without men.
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Paul Auster is “died at home, in a room he loved, the library […] with us, surrounded by his family, on April 30, 2024 at 6:58 p.m. »specifies the poet and philosopher on Instagram.
“No time to realize the pain of this loss”
“I discovered shortly afterwards that even before his body was taken away, word of his death was circulating in the media and obituaries were being published. Neither me, nor our daughter Sophie, nor our son-in-law Spencer, nor my sisters whom Paul loved like his own sisters and who were there when he died, had time to realize the pain of this loss.Siri Hustvedt protests again.
“None of us were able to call or email our loved ones before the online outcry started”she denounces.
