The Art of Hunger: Essays, Prefaces, Interviews, The Red Notebook by Paul Auster (PDF)

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In a section of interviews as well as in The Red Notebook, Auster reflects on his own work – on the need to break down the boundary between living and writing, and on the use of certain genre conventions to penetrate matters of memory and identity. The Art of Hunger undermines and illuminates our accepted notions about literature and throws an unprecedented light on Auster’s own richly allusive writings.

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⭐This collection of essays, interviews, and prefaces explores the theme of “Hunger” (whether spiritual or artistic) in modern fiction, poetry, and art. Auster’s essays celebrate (or provide a general overview of) works (or careers) of important artists, such as Knut Hamsun, Samuel Beckett, John Ashbery, William Bronk, Georges Perec, and Franz Kafka. Kafka is the subject of two essays in the book, and his story “A Hunger Artist” is for Auster a sort of template or emblem for the seriousness of the modern artist’s task. Hunger, for Auster, seems to be a kind of rebellion, a reluctance to collaborate with the failures of Western culture, and yet it is, at times, both purifying and self-destructive. Auster does not present simple resolutions regarding this predicament. Rather, he appreciates the noble struggle each of these artists has waged. And though Auster seems to admire each of the figures he writes about, he is not uncritical of them. His piece entitled “Kafka’s Letters” reveals his deep admiration of Kafka, yet Auster does not present the Czech author as a “literary giant”, but as a man–an amazingly insightful, intelligent, generous man, who, despite his troubled inner life, managed to remain committed to his art and to his friends until his excruciating last moments. The piece exalts Kafka by humanizing him, deepening our admiration of both Kafka and Auster. “The Art of Hunger” ends with “The Red Notebooks,” an interesting meditation on coincidence, which includes fascinating anecdotes from Auster’s own life. In all, this is a satisfying collection of prose pieces that fans of Auster’s fiction (and/or fans of the artists discussed in the book) should thoroughly enjoy.

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