The red notebook

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The red notebook is a book by the American writer Paul Auster . It was published in 1995 with the title The Red Notebook and Other Writings by Faber and Faber in London , in German translation in 1996 by Rowohlt . Werner Schmitz translated it into German , as did several other books by Auster before and after. Since 2001 it has been supplemented by the texts Unfallbericht (in the original: Accident Report ) and It Don't Mean a Thing , which appeared for the first time in 1999 and 2000, and which thematically fit the other stories.

The book contains short stories, one and a half to ten pages long, about true events from Auster's life or the lives of people he knows. It is about improbable circumstances and coincidence (which means accident in English and can also be translated as accident), one of the recurring themes in Oyster 's novels and autobiographical writings.

criticism

"In these short stories, coincidence does not serve to explain a puzzling occurrence, but rather to realize the contingency of everyday life."

Edition and literature

• Paul Auster: The red notebook. Extended new edition. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2001 (78 pages), ISBN 978-3-499-23040-0
• Paul Auster: A life in words . A conversation with Inge Birgitte Siegumfeldt. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2017 (409 pages), ISBN 978-3-499-27261-5 , therein about Das Rote Notebook , pp. 81–90

Individual evidence

1. ^ Paul Auster: The Accidental Rebel. In: The New York Times . April 23, 2008, accessed April 5, 2017 (English, autobiographical article). 
2. ↑ Florian Ventsch: Paul Auster: The red notebook. In: Literaturwelt.de. June 19, 2012, Retrieved May 27, 2017 (review).