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Report from the Interior – Paul Auster

30 samedi Nov 2013

Posted by Aurélie in En VO, Romans étrangers

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Critique de livre, faber and faber, Paul Auster, Report from the Interior, roman

Paul Auster - Report from the interiorLes premières phrases

«  In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts, and even the clouds had names. Scissors could walk, telephones and teapots were first cousins, eyes and eyeglasses were brothers. The face of the clock was a human face, each pea in your bowl had a different personality, and the grille on the front of your parents’ car was a grinning mouth with many teeth. Pens were airships. Coins were flying saucers. The branches of trees were arms. Stones could think, and God was everywhere.

There was no problem in believing that the man in the moon was an actual man. You could see his face looking down at you from the night sky, and without question it was the face of a man. Little matter that this man had no body – he was still a man as far as you were concerned, and the possibility that there might be a contradiction in all this never once entered your thoughts. At the same time, it seemed perfectly credible that a cow could jump over the moon. And that a dish could run away with a spoon

Your earliest thoughts, remnants of how you lived inside yourself as a small boy. You can remember only some of it, isolated bits and pieces, brief flashes of recognition that surge up in you unexpectedly at random moments – brought on by the smell of something, or the touch of something, or the way the light falls on something in the here and now of adulthood. At least you think you can remember, you believe you remember, but perhaps you are not remembering at all, or remembering only a later remembrance of what you think you thought in that distant time which is all but lost to you now. « 

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Parce que c’est Paul Auster… Un de mes auteurs préférés.

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Après « Winter Journal » (Chronique d’hiver), Paul Auster poursuit l’exploration de sa vie non plus à travers son corps mais à travers son esprit : comment pensait-il quand il était enfant ? Comment son enfance et son adolescence l’ont mené à l’homme qu’il est devenu aujourd’hui ? Quels événements l’ont le plus marqué ? Un récit passionnant, construit en quatre parties distinctes, toujours magnifiquement écrit.

Un passage parmi d’autres

 In thinking about where you want to go with this, you have decided not to cross the boundary of twelve, for after the age of twelve you were no longer a child, adolescence was looming, glimmers of adulthood had already begun to flicker in your brain, and you were transformed into a different king of being from the small person whose life was a constant plunge into the new, who every day did something for the first time, even several things, or many things, and it is this slow progress from ignorance toward something less than ignorance that concerns you now. Who were you, little man? How did you become a person who could think, and if you could think, where did your thoughts take you? Dig up the old stories, scratch around for whatever you can find, then hold up the shards to the light and have a look at them. Do that. Try to do that.

Report from the Interior – Paul Auster – 2013 (faber and faber)

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