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Diario D'inverno (2011)

by Paul Auster(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

8806213067 (ISBN13: 9788806213060)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Einaudi

review 1: This book has made me want to read more of Auster's memoirs and stories. The style of this journal is the journal that we all wish we could keep. It is musings on life, random stories and thoughts that pop into his head as the days go by, rather than a day-by-day chronicle of his life.Auster is poetic and flowy with his writing. I really enjoyed the parts where he talked about everything that we use different parts of our body for and when he remembered every address/home that he had ever lived in.I would recommend this memoir to writers and to people who claim they don't like memoirs, since it is written in such a different manner than your average life story.
review 2: This is the kind of journal I wish I could write. Sure there's not much of a plot, well,... more because it's a journal. Not quite your traditional memoir either, since he writes in the second person, addressing himself! Wow, how inventive and daring! Still it's a superb human story and a universal one at that. As you get older, the things that happen to others "begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else." Because Mr. Auster magnifies the specifics of events and narrated them as they are with little embellishment, the personal entries feel very unique and raw. The portrayal of his mother is clinical and precise. Not to say there's a lack of emotional impact. There's quite a bit, despite the almost scientific method of writing. My favorite passage is the scene-by-scene recounting of the 1950 film noir D.O.A. Annoying at first, but after I grasped the tension and point of the film and the author connected them to his panic attacks, I fully understood what Mr. Auster experiences when these attacks occur. less

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grammiof5

This is another brilliant tearjerker. Auster helped me understand myself by way of self-awareness. His life is totally naked, and he isn't one of those authors who aggrandizes himself nor is he overly self-deprecating. It is a love story, marked by many struggles with the self, family, and society. The best part of the book - for me - is seeing yourself through Auster's eyes. He is really relatable. He takes an approach of 'body and mind' memory, covering his many injuries; his addresses; his relationships via his mother. You see yourself as a child again and also as a 60 year old. This book is possibly life changing.

CRYSTAL

I checked this out from the library's audio book section because I love winter and non-fiction, knowing nothing about the book or it's author, who also reads the book. The book is a memoir of sorts, but jumps around quite a bit in place and time, which I found off-putting at first, and almost made me ditch it altogether. I'm glad I didn't, because there is nothing quite like having the author read his/her own story. I can't exactly say why I liked this book, but Auster's growing up in the 1940's/50's struck a chord with me and I will definitely be seeking out more of his books.

Issy

Récit magnifique et d'une grande fluidité. D'une grande universalité aussi. Sensible et modeste.

edge888

Almost a memoir, written in second person. Interesting.

arigro

Prefer to Auster's fiction. Very moving.

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