The Red Notebook: True Stories (New Directions Paperback) by Paul Auster (EPUB)

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The Red Notebook brings together in one volume all of Paul Auster’s short, true-life stories—a remarkable collection of tales that documents the curious, miraculous, and sometimes catastrophic turns of everyday reality.Paul Auster has earned international praise for the imaginative power of his many novels, including The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, Mr. Vertigo, and Timbuktu. He has also published a number of highly original non-fiction works: The Invention of Solitude, Hand to Mouth, and The Art of Hunger. In The Red Notebook, Auster again explores events from the real world large and small, tragic and comic—that reveal the unpredictable, shifting nature of human experience. A burnt onion pie, a wrong number, a young boy struck by lightning, a man falling off a roof, a scrap of paper discovered in a Paris hotel room—all these form the context for a singular kind of ars poetica, a literary manifesto without theory, cast in the irreducible forms of pure story telling.

User’s Reviews

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⭐The Red Notebook has wormed its way over the years to being one of my favorite books. I’ve bought many copies to give to friends. It is very light on its feet, like a high wire act, and never fails to fill me with life-affirming delight. I read it again at least once a year.I only write this review though to point out that one should buy the paperback and not the hardcover — the paperback contains 3 additional stories in the same vein of the title story and they hang together beautifully, all together amounting to one of my favorite literary experiences.The hardcover contains the title story, but then a few essays and interviews. While good, overall it is not nearly as good unfortunately. Though it is a handsome book, and I own two copies because I’m a completist and so love the story. so that’s my two cents — counter intuitively buy the paperback! It’s a much better book!

⭐In “The Red Notebook” Auster does something that is both whimsical and tremendously captivating. Most readers remember when they first read Charles Dickens and found his ‘Deus Ex Machina’ technique and his coincidences just too ridiculous to believe they actually happen in real life. However, they do. Everyone has some incredible coincidences that are basically one in a million chances, but just happen to take place.Auster seems to have noted these incidents through his entire life, and then compiled them in this book. The coincidences are extraordinary, but not things that are impossible, just things that are extremely improbable. Auster enhances his style, by the use of “Kafkaesque” elements. His use of initial names is something that Kafka did all the time. And his ironic twists are also in the vein of Kafka, but instead of being novelistic, they are real and true stories.The book is sure to captivate virtually any reader, and its conciseness both in writing and in length makes it an easily absorbed and quickly read piece of literature.

⭐What a lovely gift this was, my friend receiving it thrilled when it came in its little jewel box. It was apt to send it that way since Auster’s essays are like pearls in an oyster.Prose at its finest…short and spare as if every word was placed on the page with tweezers.I like a bookseller who appreciates her writer. A name I’ll keep.

⭐well written by Paul Auster. He relates with concise description some incredible events that took place in his life or his friends. I warmly recommend it to anybody

⭐How could you not love the clarity and sincerity of Paul Auster?

⭐Have read it twice; a great gift book too

⭐I just failed to be interested in Auster’s experiences or memories. For me, it wasn’t worth either the time or the cost.

⭐Most of NY is in love with this author. I don’t know why.

⭐”True Stories”と副題にあるので実際にあったできごとなんだろうけど、「そんなんありえへん」ような不思議な偶然の数々は、まさに「小説より奇なり」。中長編のひな形として書き綴った備忘録としても、極上のショートショートとしても読める作品となっている。小品ながらも、オースターワールドのエッセンスがぎっしりと凝縮されていて、この作家の原点を窺い知ることができる。 読んでもらえばわかるが、あまりにできすぎた偶然を何度も見聞してしまうオースタ－という作家は、神に愛されているとしか思えない。彼が地上で帯びた使命はまさしく＜書く＞ことにほかならないと確信させる、驚きや機智に満ちたエピソードばかりである。新品同様

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