The Inner Life of Martin Frost: A Film by Paul Auster (EPUB)

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A Picador Paperback OriginalA new movie written and directed by Paul Auster, starring David Thewlis, Irene Jacob, Michael Imperioli, and Sophie Auster. From The New York Trilogy to The Book of Illusions and Travels in the Scriptorium, Paul Auster is one of America’s most spectacularly inventive novelists. Smoke, Blue in the Face, and Lulu on the Bridge established him as an award-winning filmmaker. The Inner Life of Martin Frost brings together his talents as a novelist and filmmaker with a work that is tender, moving, and funny.Searching for solitude, the writer Martin Frost borrows a friend’s country house. Waking up one morning, he is shocked to find a nearly naked young woman beside him in bed. She also has a key to the house and claims to be the owner’s niece. Martin’s initial annoyance at Claire’s intrusion is rapidly forgotten as he falls passionately in love with her. Even when it is revealed that Claire is not who she claims to be, their idyllic passion continues–until she suddenly falls ill.The Inner Life of Martin Frost is based on an imaginary film that appears in his novel The Book of Illusions. Unlike the fictional Hector Spelling’s “lost” 1946 black and white film of the same title, Auster’s luminous celebration of the mysteries of love, art, and the imagination will be released in 2007.

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⭐Fans of Paul Auster know what they are getting: a powerful voice that carries you through a beautiful read. All of his books do that, and this one is no exception. I think most of us are writers or would-be writers. But sometimes Auster’s world is just too small. The Brooklyn Follies promised a chronicle of a man’s failures. Perhaps the voice would do a bit of self-searching. But the protagonist quickly abandoned that project, apparently becoming involved in others instead. That should have been a good thing. But again, by the end of the book what we have had is another long dose of Auster’s voice. Martin Frost is the extreme case. There are only two characters in the book. The “love interest” is a production of the writer Frost’s mind, and the other character is a caricature of a writer that does not come off as funny at all. The book comes off as solipsistic. Too much Paul. To get Mr. Auster and his voice at its best, just go back to Oracle Night, Hand to Mouth, The Music of Chance, and City of Glass.

⭐Pictorially and artistically this is an interesting book. But there are problems. The text is from The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster. Effectively speaking it is a short story about a couple watching a 41-minute black and white film from the forties in which two people are thrown together in the empty house of mutual friends. The woman, Claire is there to study philosophy, the man, Martin to write a story. The text is set in a gray all caps non-serif font (Futura) so that the words run across the page or at angles down the page like ghostly words from a teletype. The text is broken up in such a way that the reader is not sure at once where the eyes should go next. Sometimes the text is hidden within an artfully folded page so that the reader must open that page instead of reading what appears to be the direct continuation of the text on top of the folded page. Sometimes the text is broken up seemingly for no apparent reason.I thought the story itself was brilliant in the way Paul Auster was able to use media within media and point of view piled upon point of view to demonstrate levels of human consciousness. The text flows through the intricacies of plot and theme effortlessly as can only come from the skill of a masterful story-teller.The artwork by Glenn Thomas is tantalizing in that some of the exclusively black and white drawings seem to promise a hint of something recognizable, but then do not entirely fulfill the promise. Occasionally there is a deliberately recognizable image set among the whirling lines and hints and allegations of images so that the viewer’s mind is intrigued. Too often however (at least to this intrigued viewer’s mind) the images tail off to something unclear. Perhaps my eye is not as well trained as it might be. Some of the images are on translucent paper, and some are like some of the text, folded under a page. Some of the drawings are of an optical, illusionary quality. The overall effect somehow complements a story about a black and white film about a man writing words on paper that he burns, or of a young woman studying philosophy that may or may not apply to her life, so that we have layers of consciousness and layers of experience somehow not fully grasped by the human mind or senses. There is also a light and graceful air to both the story and the artwork with a mildly comic undertone. The topography itself is the message, as Marshall McLuhan might have said.I say “there are problems,” but the problems, like all artistic problems may exist simultaneously in the minds of both artist and the consumer of art or in one or the other. In this case I am sure there will be those who say that this book is a good short story spoiled by a distracting presentation. On the other hand there will be others who find the story itself to be extraneous to the creativity of Glenn Thomas. For myself I think the collaboration of writer and illustrator does achieve its aim, which is to use two art forms side by side and literally on top of one another to exponentially augment an effect, an experience or an understanding.

⭐Popular sophisticated author Paul Auster has joined with graphic designer Glenn Thomas to produce a ‘project’ (that seems to be the best term for this experiment). On many levels it works, and on some levels it is competitive for the readers attention span.The story is brief: David Zimmer discovers and becomes consumed by a silent film by one Hector Mann entitled ‘The Secret Life of Martin Frost’ and the author explores the effects of this obsession. Glenn Thomas divides the story into various fragments and page layouts that require fold outs and changing columns and placements on the page while inserting ink block like graphics to intensify the tale. He has elected to print the text in sans serif, all caps format and the reader’s eyes must adjust to this at times distracting presentation in order to follow the story.At times the fragmentation of the story is enhanced by the simultaneous fragmentation of the presentation. But in the end the story is not of sufficient interest to stand alone, and that is when the graphics and design fill the gap in deciding as to whether follow it to the end. The book concept is strong but will have a limited audience. Not Paul Auster’s greatest work here! Grady Harp, February 09

⭐The Inner Life of Martin Frost (From the Book of Illusions) by Paul Auster & Illustrated by Glenn Thomas This is a strangely beautiful work of art, with each page created as a separate work of art in itself. The type is arranged into different patterns on each page and tells a continuous and fascinating little story, while the bold drawings on each page cause pause for study. They are interesting and beautiful designs that baffled me. It is a book and a story to be perused over and again, a most unusual art piece in and of itself

⭐J’aime.Paul Auster arrive toujours à glisser son personnage dans une histoire et une histoire dans son personnage. Vous trouvez que ça n’a aucun sens? C’est par ce qu’il faut lire pour comprendre… ;)「スモーク」や「ルル・オン・ザ・ブリッジ」などの印象深い映画に関与してきたポール・オースターが、久しぶりに脚本と監督を手がけたのが「マーティン・フロストの内的生活」で、本書はその脚本と著者のインタビューから構成されている。この作品が最初に公表されたのは、「The Book of Illusions」(未訳)の中で描写された「架空の映画」としてであったが、今回のインタビューによると、映画の脚本として先に書かれていたものが、小説の中に組み込まれたらしい。さて、実際の映画を想像しながら脚本を読んでみた。オースターらしいモチーフが繰り返されているのに気づく。ドアごしの会話、無意味な作業に情熱を傾ける、主人公の何気ない行動が破局的な結果を生む、不可思議な対策によって結末がつけられる、などなど。その意味で「ああ、ポール・オースターだなあ」と感じさせる内容となっている。日本で上映されるのだろうか。

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