Curious... where did the translations you refer to appear? I'm asking because just this afternoon as I read Moon Palace, I noted in the story: "We shared the same passion for obscure and forgotten books (Lycophron's Cassandra, Giordano Bruno's philosophical dialogues, the notebooks of Joseph Joubert...)" I had researched Bruno after reading Auster's The Invention of Solitude. ("To follow with Bruno's notion that the structure of human thought corresponds to the structure of nature.") Unfamiliar with the Joubert reference, it's appropriate I find a mention here in the Auster forum.
Oh, and I decided to read Moon Palace after reading Kristina's testimony here in the forum.
Thanks, Joseph, for an anticipated response. Hoping the translation is online, otherwise I'll have to hunt down some small press publication...