Report from the inside

Report from the Interior is an autobiographical book by the American author Paul Auster , published in 2013 with the original title Report from the Interior . In 2014 the German translation by Werner Schmitz was published by Rowohlt-Verlag .

content

The content of the first part, which is called like the book, is the development of perception and views in political and religious terms in the remembered self-perception of the author from the first memories up to around the age of 12. The second part contains, Two blows to the head , extensive retellings of the two films The Incredible Story of Mr. C. from 1957 (director: Jack Arnold ) and Hunt for James A. from 1932, directed by Mervyn LeRoy . The topic here is the description of the effects of these films on oyster. The third part of the book, Time Capsule , contains excerpts from letters to his long-time girlfriend and later first wife, Lydia Davis , from the late 1960s and early 1970s. In the fourth part, album , there are photos selected with reference to the first three chapters and with captions from these chapters, including from the two films.

criticism

Jürgen Brôcan wrote in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung : Together with the Winter Journal (published the year before) Auster has “reached the peak of his work and presented a breathtaking panorama of a person in America in the second half of the 20th century.” Judith von Sternburg writes in the Frankfurter Rundschau , Auster continued the self-exploration from the winter journal "sovereign" and wrote about the second part, the film descriptions, that "the moviegoer proves how words are stronger and more impressive than pictures".

Quotes

“Life was dangerous. The ground under your feet could give way at any moment "

expenditure

• Report from the Interior . Henry Holt, New York; Faber & Faber, London 2013 (341 pages), ISBN 978-0-571-30368-7 .
  • Translation: Report from within . German by Werner Schmitz. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2014 (360 pages), ISBN 978-3-499-26732-1 .

literature

• • Paul Auster: A life in words . A conversation with Inge Birgitte Siegumfeldt . German by Werner Schmitz and Silvia Morawetz . Rowohlt, Reinbek 2017 (409 pages), ISBN 978-3-499-27261-5 , on the report from the inside : pages 106-130

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jürgen Brôcan: Relentlessly honest. Neue Zürcher Zeitung from October 3, 2014.
2. ^ Judith von Sternburg: Alone in a room . In: Frankfurter Rundschau , October 28, 2014, accessed on May 13, 2017.
3. ↑ Report from the inside, page cc, / 6