Larissa's review
The Red Notebook: True Stories
by Paul Auster
Larissa's review
The Red Notebook: True Stories by Paul Auster
Larissa's review
rating:
When you're a man as good-looking, beloved by the French, and utterly meta as Paul Auster, things happen to you. Exciting things. Surprising things. Coicidental and virtually impossible things. And if things aren't happening to you, then by golly, they are happening to someone you know. And so what are you to do, Paul Auster, but to write a book detailing the minute ways in which life (specifically yours) truly means something.
Because, Dear Reader, everything is connected.
Auster believes in a type of fate, it seems, a universal undercurrent that prompts and pushes almost every moment of our lives. Luckily, this predilection never seems too fanatical, never truly takes on the spectre of religious predestination that seems to be playing on the sidelines. Because when you get down to it, the fact that Paul Auster thinks that one day he lost a dime in Brooklyn and then later that day found "the very same dime" in front of Yankee Stadium is pretty endearing...more
Because, Dear Reader, everything is connected.
Auster believes in a type of fate, it seems, a universal undercurrent that prompts and pushes almost every moment of our lives. Luckily, this predilection never seems too fanatical, never truly takes on the spectre of religious predestination that seems to be playing on the sidelines. Because when you get down to it, the fact that Paul Auster thinks that one day he lost a dime in Brooklyn and then later that day found "the very same dime" in front of Yankee Stadium is pretty endearing...more
