Report from the Interior

Resumen del libro

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 acclaimed novelist Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within, through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world. 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 post-war fifties 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 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.

Biografía del autor

Paul Auster es escritor, traductor y cineasta. Entre sus obras destacan La trilogía de Nueva York (1987), El libro de las ilusiones (2002), Brooklyn Follies (2005), Un hombre en la oscuridad (2008) e Invisible (2009). Ha escrito los guiones de las películas Smoke (1995) y Blue in the Face (1995), en cuya dirección colaboró con Wayne Wang, y Lulu on the Bridge (1998) y La vida interior de Martin Frost (2007), que dirigió en solitario.<br> Ha recibido numerosos galardones, entre los que destacan el Premio Médicis por la novela Leviatán, el Independent Spirit Award por el guion de Smoke, el Premio al mejor libro del año del Gremio de Libreros de Madrid por El libro de las ilusiones, el Premio Qué Leer por La noche del oráculo y el Premio Leteo; ha sido finalista del International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award por El libro de las ilusiones y del PEN/Faulkner Award por La música del azar.<br> En 2006 recibió el Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Letras. Es miembro de la American Academy of Arts and Letters y Comandante de la Orden de las Artes y las Letras francesa. Su obra está traducida a más de cuarenta idiomas. Vive en Brooklyn, Nueva York.