Report from the Interior Report from the Interior

Report from the Interior

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Publisher Description

Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster remembers the experience of his development from within through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world in Report from the Interior.

In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . .

From his 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 postwar 1950s and into the turbulent 1960s.

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—which makes it everyone's story—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.

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2013
November 19
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
352
Pages
PUBLISHER
Henry Holt and Co.
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
16.2
MB

Customer Reviews

Emmet Aloysius ,

Inconsistent

This is not Auster's best work but he always makes you think, dream, & analyze. This is in 3 parts and the best part is the initial section and not as interesting thereafter, especially section three. A good retrospective but not as good as Winter Journal....EAF

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