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Title: Report from the Interior

Author: Paul Auster

Narrator: Paul Auster

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-19-13

Publisher: Macmillan Audio

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 18 votes

Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Artists, Writers, & Musicians

Publisher's Summary:

Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date. In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts

Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world in Report from the Interior.

From his baby's-eye view of the man in the moon, to his childhood worship of the movie cowboy Buster Crabbe, to the composition of his first poem at the age of nine, to his dawning awareness of the injustices of American life, Report from the interior charts Auster's moral, political, and intellectual journey as he inches his way toward adulthood through the postwar 1950s and into the turbulent 1960s. Auster evokes the sounds, smells, and tactile 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 audiobook breaks away from prose into pure imagery: The final section of Report from the Interior recapitulates the first three parts. At once a story of the times - which makes it everyone's story - and the story of the emerging consciousness of a renowned literary artist, this four-part work answers the challenge of autobiography in ways rarely, if ever, seen before.

Members Reviews:

Interesting memoir for Auster fans, perhaps not for neophytes

An interesting work. I agree with most of the reviews here. If you are reading this as a fan, as someone who has already read the novels and is very familiar with Auster, you'll probably enjoy this. It would be difficult to recommend this as an example of why you appreciate the genius of Paul Auster, however. For that, you still need to go back to his fiction. But I was pleasantly surprised that he could present his early childhood in such an interesting manner. That first section stands out as the best of this, for me.

If you've never seen The Incredible Shrinking Man or Fugitive From a Chain Gang (I've seen both films several times), you may enjoy those stories being told to you, in great detail. However, it seems altogether a better idea to simply watch those great films, rather than having Auster describe them to you. A meticulous retelling of the narrative of these films might have been more effective (for me) if balanced with an equal amount of "interior" musings about why these films had such a profound effect on him. They made a strong impression on me, as well, so I share his enthusiasm to talk about these films.

It's an eclectic mix of writing here that succeeds by being not quite like anything else, and that's always been Auster's greatest gift, I think. It may also inform the way we look at modern memoir.

Reflective and insightful

Paul Auster is one of the greatest American authors of all time, certainly one of the most important authors still publishing today!

Beautiful

On reading this memoir, I remain captivated by the language, the brilliant choice of second person narrative and the lucid perception through a distant child's eyes. As though re-imagining the past and re-constructing it through the informed retrospection of middle to late adulthood.