REPORT FROM THE INTERIOR
'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.
PAUL AUSTER
Paul Auster is the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Sunset Park, The Book of Illusions, Moon Palace and The New York Trilogy. He and Spencer Ostrander collaborated on Bloodbath Nation.
In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. His other honours include the Prix Medicis Étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the Screenplay of Smoke, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Burning Boy, and the Carlos Fuentes Prize for his body of work. His most recent novel, 4 3 2 1, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and is a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into more than forty languages.
He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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AUSTER PAUL
Paul Auster Fue escritor, traductor y cineasta. Entre sus obras destacan La invención de la soledad 1982 ; La trilogía de Nueva York 1987 ; El Palacio de la Luna 1989 ; Leviatán 1992 ; Tombuctú 1999 ; El libro de las ilusiones 2002 ; La noche del oráculo 2003 ; Brooklyn Follies 2005 ; Sunset Park 2010 ; Diario de invierno 2012 ; 4 3 2 1 2017 ; La llama inmortal de Stephen Crane 2021 ; Un país bañado en sangre 2023 , en colaboración con Spencer Ostrander, y Baumgartner 2024 . escribió los guiones de las películas Smoke 1995 y Blue in the Face 1995 , en cuya dirección colaboró con Wayne Wang, y los de Lulu on the Bridge 1998 y La vida interior de Martin Frost 2007 , que dirigió en solitario. Editó el libro de relatos Creía que mi padre era Dios 2001 y su obra poética está reunida en el tomo Poesía completa 2012 . Fue también autor de Una vida en palabras 2018 , un volumen que recoge sus conversaciones con la profesora I. B. Siegumfeldt sobre su obra y el oficio de escribir. Recibió numerosos galardones, entre los que destacan el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras, el Premio Médicis por la novela Leviatán, el Independent Spirit Award por el guion de Smoke y el Premio al mejor libro del año del Gremio de Libreros de Madrid por El libro de las ilusiones. Fue nombrado miembro de la Academia Estadounidense de las Artes y las Letras y Comandante de la Orden de las Artes y las Letras francesa. Su obra está traducida a más de cuarenta idiomas. Murió en Brooklyn el 30 de abril de 2024.