Winter Journal

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9780571283200
  • 01 september 2012
  • 256 pagina's
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Paul Auster

De Amerikaanse auteur Paul Auster (1947) werd in Newark, New Jersey geboren. Hij schreef in zijn leven behalve romans ook poëzie, essays en scripts. Zijn werk is in meer dan veertig landen vertaald. Auster wordt gezien als een van de grootste (Amerikaanse) schrijvers van zijn tijd. Op bol.com vind je alle boeken van Paul Auster, waaronder het nieuwste boek van Paul Auster.

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On January 3, 2011, exactly one month before his sixty-fourth birthday, Paul Auster sat down and wrote the first entry of Winter Journal , his unorthodox, beautifully wrought examination of his own life, as seen through the history of his body. Composed in the manner of a musical fugue, the journal advances from one autobiographical fragment to the next, jumping backward and forward in time as the various themes intersect, bounce off one another, and ultimately merge in a great chorus of multiple voices, of one voice multiplied into many. Writing in the second person, as if addressing himself as a stranger, which at the same time establishes an uncanny intimacy with the reader, Auster takes us from childhood to the brink of old age as he summons forth a universe of physical sensation, of pleasures and pains, moving from the awakening sexual desire as an adolescent to the ever deepening bonds of married love, from the shocks of violent accidents to an account of his mother's sudden death in 2002, from meditations on eating and sleeping to the scalding, epiphanic moment of clarity in 1978 that set him on a new course as a writer. Thirty years after the publication of The Invention of Solitude , his first book of prose, Paul Auster has now given us a second memoir of uncommon power and grace. Winter Journal is a book that looks straight into the heart of what it means to be alive.

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01 september 2012
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256
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145 mm
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23 mm
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224 mm
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364 g

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    This quite passionate book is almost an autobiography written at the relatively tender age of 64 by an icon of American literature, but not quite. He is reticent about his two children and his sister, but quite open about the rest of both his parents’ families short histories ( and with a terrible family secret revealed only when he was in his early 20s). This reader is struck by PA’s powers of memory and the clarity of his making sense of his life at different stages.
    Another sign that this is not an autobiography is the near absence of references to what he is most famous for: a New York-based creator of works of art, mostly literature. Not a word about the challenge of the white page or about the books, poems and screenplays he wrote or the films he directed.
    At another level this looks like a book of lists, about illnesses, injuries and other medical mishap. A list of all the houses/homes he has lived in, countries visited and for how long or about the number of US states he set foot in (40). A gold mine for future biographers. Towards the end of the book this listing habit returns with PA’s favorite sweets, foods and drinks, soft drinks and stronger stuff. And his regrets about how harshly smoking has been restricted.
    PA’s turning point in life was meeting his wife of >30 years, Siri Hustvedt who has also become a highly respected novelist and essayist. PA quotes their daughter describing her identity as ‘Jewegian’, reflecting her dad’s Polish Jewish and mother’s Norwegian Lutheran roots.
    Find PA’s title and final words too pessimistic. At 64 most people would rather view themselves as living in the Indian summer or autumn of their lives, not the start of winter. But his Wikipedia entry quotes him as saying that his drawer is empty, he has run out of ideas for another novel...

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