Man in the Dark (novel)

Man in the Dark is a novel by Paul Auster published in August 2008. Its topic is a dystopian scenario of the present-day United States being torn apart by a new secession and civil war after the presidential elections of 2000. (The fictional division between the secessionist and loyal states is very similar to the "Jesusland" map.) This is told within a frame narrative of an aging journalist reflecting on his family and the death of his wife.

For the 1953 movie, see Man in the Dark.
Man in the Dark
First edition
AuthorPaul Auster
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
PublisherHenry Holt and Co.
Publication date
August 19, 2008
Media typePrint (Hardback) and Audio CD
Pages180 pp
ISBN978-0-571-24076-0
OCLC229464027
Preceded byTravels in the Scriptorium 
Followed byInvisible 

Editions
  • Man in the Dark, Henry Holt and Co. 2008. ISBN 978-0-571-24076-0

Reviews
  • California Literary Review, by Garan Holcombe
  • San Francisco Chronicle, by Stephen Elliott
  • The Telegraph, by Ruth Scurr
  • The New York Review of Books, by Michael Dirda
  • The Washington Post, by Jeff Turrentine (Washington Post Best Books of the Year)
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gollark: > this is standard programming dogma, detailed logging takes a lot of space and typically you enable logging on the fly on clients to catch errors. this is literally cookie cutter "how to build apps 101", and not scary. or, phrased differently, is it scary if all of that logging was always on? obviously not as it's agreed upon and detailed in TikTok's privacy policy (really), so why is it scary that there's an on and off switch?This is them saying that remotely configurable logging is fine and normal; I don't think them being able to arbitrarily gather more data is good.
gollark: > on the topic of setting up a proxy server - it's a very standard practice to transcode and buffer media via a server, they have simply reversed the roles here by having server and client on the client, which makes sense as transcoding is very intensive CPU-wise, which means they have distributed that power requirement to the end user's devices instead of having to have servers capable of transcoding millions of videos.Transcoding media locally is not the same as having some sort of locally running *server* to do it.
gollark: That doesn't mean it's actually always what happens.
gollark: Legally, yes.


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