Resumo de Timbuktu - Paul Auster

?Timbuktu? is the touching tale of a dog, Mr. Bones, bosom companion of an eccentric, psychologically disturbed, brilliant, modern saint and poet, Willy G Christmas of Brooklyn. Son of Jewish parents who survived the concentration camps and the horrors of the war before landing in America, Willy had an unenviable childhood. He hardly missed his father when he lost him at the age of twelve and was always at loggerheads with his mother till she died much later. Willy had a flair for writing and Mrs. Swanson, his High School Teacher, encouraged the poet in him as a result of which Willy became an unpublished writer with countless poems, stories, essays, diary entries, epigrams, autobiographical musings and even a half written epic to his credit. His college days were spent in the clutches of drugs. An attack of schizophrenia sent him to the looney bin for sometime before he finally returned to his mother?s apartment to recover. One day, as he was watching TV in a half drunk state, he had a vision of Santa Claus which changed his life forever. Much to the horror of his long-suffering Jewish mother, he had a picture of Santa Claus tattooed on his arm and became a modern saint, embodying the virtues of Christmas, giving away his meager financial resources to needy individuals and organizations, offering a shoulder for the unfortunate to weep on and being a saviour of souls in distress. An enemy of consumerism and civilization he led most of his life wandering on the streets, coming to his mother?s apartment only to spend the winter. As he was often assaulted and battered on his lonely travels, he got a pup, Mr. Bones to keep him company and give him protection. Willy became Mr. Bones? world and this world is made known to the readers of ?Timbuktu? through the eyes of his canine friend, Mr. Bones. Mr. Bones spent seventeen years of his life with Willy, accompanying him on his aimless travels, listening to his stories and his opinions of the world. When Willy died of consumption, old Mr. Bones was left to fend of himself in a cruel and hostile world. Throughout his short life without Willy, the loyal and loving creature couldn?t forget his master and thought of him often and spoke to him in his dreams. After Willy?s death, Mr. Bones spent a short time with a Chinese boy, Henry before he was chased away by Henry?s father. Tired, sick, old and encouraged only by the loving words of his master in his dreams, Mr. Bones finally ended up with a typical American family in Southern Virginia who took good care of him for sometime before he fell so sick that he decided to end his life under a car in order to join his beloved master, Willy, in Timbuktu, the beautiful land of after death, where all was joy without sorrow or pain and where dogs could talk like men.

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