Auggie Wren's Christmas story
Auggie Wren's Christmas story is a short story by the American author Paul Auster . It first appeared in the Christmas edition of the New York Times in 1990. Because of this story, Auster and the director Wayne Wang came into contact, and years later, in 1995, the film Smoke was made. In this film, the Christmas story of Auggie Wren, played by Harvey Keitel , one of the main characters of the film, is told towards the end , namely the second protagonist, the writer Paul Benjamin . As the film progresses, the story is shown without words, with the play Innocent When You Dream by Tom Waits being played .
Reviews
On Literaturcafe.de the story from 1990, which was filmed in 1995, is referred to in December 2015 as “the modern Christmas classic”. According to the title of the discussion “Truth and Reality”, the discussion repeatedly emphasized the blurring between reality and fiction : “Reality becomes fiction, and even within fiction, the question of truth arises on several levels .” The discussion ends with Tom Waits saying about his song Innocent when you dream that the whole song is a lie , "which in turn goes wonderfully with Auster's story".
expenditure
- Original edition contained in The New York Times, December 25, 1990
- Contained in the 1995 film Smoke , written by Paul Auster, directed by Wayne Wang, told by Harvey Keitel
- Contained in the script for Smoke (film) : Smoke & Blue in the Face: Two Films. Faber & Faber, London 1995. ISBN 0-571-17569-4 (English)
- Contained in translation: Smoke & Blue in the Face: two films. German by Werner Schmitz . Rowohlt, Reinbek 1995. ISBN 3-499-13666-X (Contains both scripts and an interview with Paul Auster)
- Auggie Wren's Christmas story. German by Werner Schmitz. Rowohlt Verlag, Reinbek 2008, ISBN 978-3-499-24863-4 .
Web links
- Auggie Wren's Christmas story in the film Smoke, told on youtube
- Auggie Wren's Christmas story in the film Smoke, shown on youtube, music from 4:40, story from 5:14
Individual evidence
Novels: Squeeze Play (1982) (in From hand to mouth (1997)) | The New York Trilogy (includes City of Glass (1985), Drop Shadow (1986), Behind Closed Doors (1987)) | In the Land of Last Things (1989) | Moon over Manhattan (1989) | The Music of Chance (1992) | Leviathan | Mr. Vertigo | Timbuktu | The Book of Illusions | Night of the Oracle | The Brooklyn Revue | Travels in the scriptorium | Man in the dark | Invisible | Sunset Park | 4 3 2 1
Short stories, poems and films: Auggie Wren's Christmas story | Disappereances - On Disappearance | Smoke | Blue in the Face | Lulu on the Bridge | The inner workings of the Martin Frost
Biographical: The Invention of Solitude | The art of hunger | The story of my typewriter (2005) | From hand to mouth | The red notebook (1995, 2002) | Winter Journal | Report from the inside | A life in words