Winter Journal

Winter Journal is a book by the American author Paul Auster , published in 2012 (2013 in German translation by Werner Schmitz , who also translated numerous other books by Auster). It is primarily about autobiographical records of external influences on Auster himself and especially his body. The book contains, among other things, descriptions of a car accident he experienced in 2002, the life of his mother and the aftermath of her death on his later life, as well as a short retelling of the film DOA , German: Victims of the Underworld from 1950, directed by Rudolph Maté .

criticism

Paul Ingendaay writes in the FAZ that the book is “a half narrative, half essayistic wandering through formative moments, coincidental circumstances and leitmotifs of its existence”. Der Spiegel rates it as a “biography of one's own body”.

Quotes

“Your hands (...) They moved over your wife's bare skin and found their way into the last corner. That is where they are happiest, you can feel it, that is where they have always been happiest since the day you met them, because, to modify a line from a poem by George Oppen , some of the most beautiful places in the world are located on your wife's body. "

expenditure

• Winter Journal . Henry Holt, New York; Faber & Faber, London 2012, ISBN 978-0-571-28320-0 .
  • Translation: Winter Journal. German by Werner Schmitz. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2013, ISBN 978-3-498-00087-5 .

Web links

• Anne Haeming: Biography of Your Own Body. Meeting in the mirror
• Sacha Verna: The arbitrariness of fate, review on Deutschlandfunk, January 26, 2014

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 Winter Journal : pages 91-105

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paul Ingendaay. Is there a predisposition to happiness? FAZ, September 20, 2013
2. ↑ Winter Journal, page 185, / 6