Zimmer

Character

• reliable, trustable, devoted, vulnerable
• brilliant, hard working, conscientious
• serious, thoughtful
• lonely and alone, inhibited
• generous (his finances are not so solid, wants nothing in return from Fogg)
• modest

Appearance

• small
• curly black hair
• contained upright posture
• metal ringed glasses
• growing a beard
  -> looks like a young rabbi(t)

Facts

• studies comparative literature at Columbia, has a scholarship
• writing strange poetry is important to him
• passion for obscure and forgotten books
• was just left by his girlfriend (looks everyday for letters from her)
• best friend of Fogg
• Fogg lives with him in his apartment for over a month
• makes Fogg talk to Kitty Wu
• later he has a family

Additional Facts

• Auster also wrote a novel called “The Book of Illusions” about Zimmer which describes his later life