tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post116968338290035543..comments2024-03-27T02:00:49.152-04:00Comments on Kate's Book Blog: More AusterKate S.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16897618197257393697noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-1169861723720818872007-01-26T20:35:00.000-05:002007-01-26T20:35:00.000-05:00That was a very Auster-ian sort of journey you des...That was a very Auster-ian sort of journey you described, don't you think?<BR/>I'm on a Robertson Davies binge right now.mary grimmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04294368835776483342noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-1169781744989488692007-01-25T22:22:00.000-05:002007-01-25T22:22:00.000-05:00I'm reading Auster's Book of Illusions at the mo...I'm reading Auster's <EM> Book of Illusions </EM> at the moment, and your post has made me want to go on an Auster binge. Enjoy!MissMillerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01084598396848670412noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-1169772659448051162007-01-25T19:50:00.000-05:002007-01-25T19:50:00.000-05:00I agree with Litlove -- you are making the case fo...I agree with Litlove -- you are making the case for Auster. I have enjoyed reading all of your posts on this journey.<BR/><BR/>I was struck also by your effort to immerse yourself in an author -- will save this post to reread to myself and ponder. I am trying to do more of this myself, starting with Margaret Atwood. I am reading Cat's Eye and her essays on writing simultaneously. I really want to pursue this further with Woolf, reading her books in conjunction with Briggs' bio, An Inner Life (not my idea -- you or one of the other litbloggers had invented that). Such a rich way to approach reading, I think, and your discoveries about Auster seem to prove the case.LKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05445951627105831041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-1169756645717744252007-01-25T15:24:00.000-05:002007-01-25T15:24:00.000-05:00I have the New York Trilogy--I really must read it...I have the New York Trilogy--I really must read it! It's interesting reading multiple books by one author!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-1169755425718580052007-01-25T15:03:00.000-05:002007-01-25T15:03:00.000-05:00I am positively itching to read the new Auster now...I am positively itching to read the new Auster now.<BR/><BR/>I know Auster has said Don Quixote is his all-time favourite book, but I don't recall coming across anything he's written explicitly on the subject.<BR/><BR/>Re The Red Notebook: it's full of coincidence, but I think he's making a point about the interconnectedness of seemingly insignificant things. It doesn't necessarily make things more significant for that, but I'd say his oeuvre is a kind of ongoing inner dialogue about how your mind forces you to see (or create) connections, how life feeds art and vice versa and comes full circle. <BR/><BR/>Daniel Quinn's lost passport turns up in The Country of Last Things. I find that gives his fiction more reality -- all his fictional worlds are interconnected and more fully fleshed out for this kind of insignificant detail. Auster's rich in ideas, but I wouldn't say his language or descriptions are rich -- not like Dickens can make you picture a character in front of you -- so I think this is a pretty neat trick of his to make his world seem more real.<BR/><BR/>I can see the influence too of Don Quixote -- stories within stories, the creation of a quest (by Auster himself as well as by his characters) where an ordinary person would see none, a kind of skewing of reality to create meaning and significance when there are none.Isabella Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10735198478395875257noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13774780.post-1169713015407148512007-01-25T03:16:00.000-05:002007-01-25T03:16:00.000-05:00How you make me want to read Auster, Kate! I love ...How you make me want to read Auster, Kate! I love the thought of you as literary detective, soft-shoeing your way around the libraries of the city!litlovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10952927245186474480noreply@blogger.com