PAUL AUSTER is one of the very few giants of English-language literature who has successfully made the leap from the twentieth to the twenty-first century. A poet and translator before he achieved international prominence as a memoirist and novelist, Auster continues to challenge and dazzle his readers in America and around the world. His most recent novel is 4 3 2 1. I.B. SIEGUMFELDT is an associate professor of English, Germanic, and Romance Studies at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and the driving force behind the university's forthcoming Paul Auster Center.