Paul Benjamin

This article covers the pseudonym and the movie character. There is no German-language article about the American actor of the same name.

Paul Benjamin is a pseudonym of Paul Benjamin Auster that he used for the 1978 crime novel Squeeze Play . In Germany, the novel was added to the autobiographical volume From hand to mouth in 1998 . A chronicle of early failures published in larger numbers. This name also refers to a character in the film Smoke , directed by Wayne Wang to the Auster wrote the script. Another character in the film, Rashid, uses this name to avoid having to mention his own name.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paul Auster: From hand to mouth. Reinbek near Hamburg 1998, pp. 144ff.