He terminado con gran rapidez Oracle Night, de Paul Auster. Me fascina la prosa ligera para expresar pensamientos y situaciones complejas con las que es difícil no identificarse. 
El libro comienza con una reflexión a partir de una cita tomada de El Halcón Maltés, de Dashiell Hammet:
As Hammet puts it: 'He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him look at the works.' Flitcraft realizes that the world isn't the sane and orderly place he thought it was, that he's had it all wrong from the beginning and never understood the first thing about it. The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives, and those lives can be taken from us at any moment -for not reason at all. [...] he has no choice but to submit to this destructive power, to smash his life through some meaningless, wholly arbitrary act of self-negation. [...] without bothering to return home or say good-bye to his family, without even bothering to withdraw any money from the bank, he stands up from the table, goes to another city, and starts his life all over again.
Se trata de entender que la vida no es un camino lineal donde todo está ordenado y en el que lo que nos sucede es controlable mediante un comportamiento determinado a lo largo de la vida propia.
Todo parece llevar al protagonista, un escritor convaleciente de un accidente, por el mismo camino de autodestrucción. Sin embargo, finalmente decide no marcharse. Decide regresar y poner su voluntad al servicio de lo normal, lo coherente.