Siri Hustvedt, American novelist and essayist who lost her husband Paul Auster on Tuesday, said on Thursday that she had been “robbed” of her “dignity” when a friend of the couple announced the death of the writer to the New York Times. New Yorker.
“I was naive, but I had imagined that I would be the person who would announce the death of my husband, Paul Auster”, stormed Siri Hustvedt on her Instagram account who revealed her husband’s lung cancer in March 2023.
Paul Auster, prolific novelist, poet and film screenwriter, propelled onto the international literary scene by his “New York Trilogy”, “died this evening, at his home, surrounded by his loved ones”, including Siri Hustvedt and their daughter Sophie Auster, of complications from lung cancer at the age of 77, revealed the New York Times on Tuesday just before midnight, citing a family friend, the American author and journalist Jacki Lyden.
“We were robbed of this dignity. I don’t know the whole story but I know this: it’s wrong”denounced Ms. Hustvedt, 69, author of numerous novels and essays such as “Blindfolds” and “A Summer Without Men”.
Paul Auster is “died at home (in Brooklyn) 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.
“I discovered shortly afterwards that even before his body was taken away, news 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, did not have time to realize the pain of this loss”protests Siri Hustvedt.
“None of us were able to call or email our loved ones before the online auction started,” she complains.
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