When Paul Auster was asked who, in his opinion, could be called the ideal storyteller, the writer replied: “These are the unknown men and women - the creators of the fairy tales that we still tell each other to this day, these are the creators of A Thousand and one night" and European fairy tales. I'm talking about the entire tradition of oral creativity that appeared from the moment a person learned to speak. She is the inexhaustible source of inspiration for me.” All books by Paul Auster, no matter what period they belong to, have one striking feature that can be called - the magic of the story. It is the story, the oral genre - Auster can be read aloud, can be read at night instead of a fairy tale. Its narrator (Auster always prefers first-person narration) will talk about anything - about everyday life, about magic, about love - and even banal content from the outside will not seem flat.