Lucka 6: Betydelsen av en felringning

"It was the wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not. Much later, when he was able to think about the things that happened to him, he would conclude that nothing was real except chance. But that was much later. In the beginning, there was simply the event and its consequences. Whether it might have turned out differently, or whether it was all predetermined with the first word that came from the stranger's mouth, is not the question. The question is the story itself, and whether or not it means something is not for the story to tell."

Bok: The New York Trilogy
Författare: Paul Auster (1947-)
Utgivningsår: 1987
Läs också: The Brooklyn Follies (2005), Travels in the Scriptorium (2006)
Om författaren: Genom en högst personlig blandning av absurdism, krimfiktion och existentialism har Paul Auster blivit en av USA:s mest lästa och älskade författare.
Paul Auster är gift med författaren Siri Hustvedt och paret bor i Brooklyn.