Report From The Interior

Having recalled his life through the story of his physical şelf in Winter Journal, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from v/ithin, through the encounters of his interior şelf with the outer world. From his baby's-eye view of the man in the moon, to his childhood v/orship of the movie cowboy Buster Crabbe, to the composition of his first poem at the age of nine, to his dawning avvareness of the injustices of American life, Report from the interior charts Auster's moral, political and intellectual journey as he inches his way towards adulthood through the post-war fifties and into the turbulent sixties. Auster evokes the sounds, smells and tadile 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 püre imagery: the final section of Report from the İnterior recapitulates the first three parts, told in an albüm of pictures. At önce a story of the times - which makes it everyone's story - and the story of the emerging consciousness of a renov/ned literary artist, this four-part work answers the challenge of autobiography in ways rarely, if ever, seen before.