Insider Report

Section: Translated Novels

Number of pages: 288 pages

An Inside Report After several books in which he touched on his biography, including "A Winter's Tale", Auster devotes this book to returning to his childhood years as they are preserved in his memory. The "inside" that Auster places in the title of the book is a counterpart to isolation, which is the only certain truth in his earthly life, as Auster repeats in his books and through the lives of the heroes of his novels, especially the heroes of the famous "New York Trilogy" with which he began his decades-long writing journey. It is also the inside to which we escape from everything that penetrates the purity of our rare moment. In the last chapter of this book, Auster addresses a letter to his wife, in which his vision of the world and the importance and centrality of the "inside" for him become clear, as he says: "For me, the problem of the world is first and foremost a personal problem, and the solution can only be achieved by starting from within