'_In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were
endowed with beating hearts . . ._'
Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in
_Winter Journal_, internationally best-selling novelist Paul Auster
now remembers the experience of his development from within, through
the encounters of his interior self with the outer world, as well as
through a selection of the revealing letters he sent to his first
wife, acclaimed author Lydia Davis.
An impressionistic portrait of a writer coming of age, _Report from
the Interior _moves from Auster's baby's-eye view of the man in the
moon to his childhood worship of the movie cowboy Buster Crabbe to the
composition of his first poem at the age of nine to his dawning
awareness of the injustices of American life. _Report from the
Interior _charts Auster's moral, political and intellectual journey as
he inches his way toward adulthood through the post-war fifties and
into the turbulent 1960s.
Paul Auster evokes the sounds, smells, and tactile sensations that
marked his early life - and the many images that came at him,
including moving images (he adored cartoons, he was in love with
films), until, at its unique climax, the book breaks away from prose
into pure imagery: the final section of _Report from the Interior
_recapitulates the first three parts, told in an album of pictures.
At once a story of the times and the story of the emerging
consciousness of a renowned literary artist, this four-part work
answers the challenge of autobiography in ways rarely, if ever, seen
before.
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ISBN
9780571303724
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Faber & Faber
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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