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Bericht Vanuit Het Innerlijk (2013)

by Paul Auster(Favorite Author)

3.34 of 5 Votes: 2

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

De Arbeiderspers

review 1: What a strange and captivating memoir. It can be divided in two parts, really, the first being a brief trip through Auster's earliest memories, a piecemeal and seemingly dreamlike wandering through his early formative impressions, which range from cartoon shows to Nazi Germany. It invites the reader to do the same- to collect the flashes of memory that are all that we have left of our early years and wonder why these are the moments we are left with. I remember certain hours, certain sentences people spoke to me with a clarity that is clarion clear, but somehow puzzlingly detached, as if they happened in a past life or to a different person. Which is really what Auster is talking about in this book. The dialogue we have with our past selves, that person who is now a s... moretranger, but somehow still looking out from your same eyes. The second half feels like an entirely different book. It consists of a series of old letters he wrote that Auster's ex-wife had recently sent to him, and as I remember they span his late teens and early twenties. Auster is tempestuous and idealistic and emotional in his letters, raw in a way that I think we forget as we grow older and more complacent in who we are. Auster appears disconcerted at the person writing this letter, this stranger that is his earlier self. It made me glad that I never threw away my old journals in one of my periodic fits of minimalism. It is astonishing how soundlessly we can glide through the years.I really loved this, will need to read more Auster.
review 2: Paul Auster us such a quirky abstract author. I like to read his books because they always stimulate my curiosity, they often surprise and the style is invariably unusual. All that is true in Report from the Interior. It is an autobiographical account of his state of mind during his childhood and very young adulthood. It is written in the second person, i.e. you is he. The problem that pervaded this book, however, and ruined it, finally, for me, was that it was unrelentingly self-indulgent. I did care to know about the young Paul Auster, and much about what he wrote about resonated with me because we are almost the same age. I just didn't care to hear that much about the young Paul Auster. The first Auster book I don't really recommend. less

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