Granta Paul Auster Interview

[SussBank]

ZIONist !

[rjd53]

I just finished reading "Oracle Night", a book that kept me up all night, couldn't put it down. "Sunset Park" I absolutely loved reading, "Invisible" comes very close. You always feel Auster's love for his protagonists, a great sense of humanism. He doesn't put others down just to show how smarter he is, there is no false irony. - And he doesn't only show, what's wrong with people, he's not afraid to show also how you should act. He won't moralize, he just shows, so you can see by yourself.

[Romeo195222]

I have read both Moon Palace and In the Country of Last Things. They were amazing. Now I am reading Sunset Park and I just bought Invisible!

[MegaMalelover]

Extremly sexy voice! 

[cerenimoon]

My favorite Paul Auster novels areThe Newyork trilogy and Leviathan...Sorry but I dont enjoy 'ınvisible'.But also I like ınvisible's end..And ıt change my mind about library:p

[funktrane]

Very sexy voice.

[smithslover1]

@funktrane I could listen to him all day. Wish he was doing a reading here

[Neonectria]

"... clarity, finally, is the most unsettling thing possible. It allows the readers in some sense, if you can do it well, ideally, to forget that the medium of expression is language. That you are just somehow in what the words are saying but you are not even thinking about the words anymore..."

Un de mes auteurs préférés et ce depuis la lecture (il y a 20 ans déjà... ça file!) de sa Trilogie new-yorkaise.

[tristessa56079]

Easily my favourite modern author.

[toolesttool]

So is this guy suggesting at the end that he tries to "forget" the language? Hmmmm...

[spd13062]

What a great interview....I read "Man in the Dark" recently and really enjoyed it, as well as a really old one of his.."Moon Palace" which I could not put down. He clearly enjoys everything about being a writer, and is great at his craft. Cannot believe he used #2 pencils on paper....incredible.

[AnimalVirulent]

This author is really magic.

[licianinh]

Hard to put down, "Invisible" has three interesting stories going at the same time. Paul Auster blurs the lines between truth and imagination. I enjoyed the book enough that once I started reading I couldn't stop. Started one day, finished the next.

[violistarevirtuoso]

Invisible is what of the greatest novels I´ve ever read. I´m so glad Paul Auster made it.

[Bjarnesen92]

I love the voice. Simply the voice is so fantastic.

[naomisad]

This author is a great......a living legend..a class act...i adore his work!

[boXXer56]

2:12 "This fucking uhm...Man in the Dark" xD

[AnimalVirulent]

@boXXer56 lol

[KubrickRjd2]

Great Auster!

[siggiola32]

Great interview with this wonderful author. He truly is one of the greats. Love what he says in the end about clarity. I've always found that to be one of his strengths as a writer- using wonderfully colourful language without ever becoming vague. That is one of the reasons one becomes so completely absorbed in the stories he tells. I love this guy!

[moher1999]

I just bought the book in Barcelona a few days ago...and watching this interview makes me want to spend the night reading it!!! I've been an Auster fan for nearly 12 years now since I bought a paperback of "In the country of last things" Just in case you don't know, a DVD with his interviews with Gerard de Cortanze has been published!Best regards from Barcelona...

[smithslover1]

@moher1999 do you know where I can find this, I love Paul Auster's work too

[nathangerine]

Let me tell you I've enjoyed so much listening to you.

I,m a big admirer of your ART,,,'was about to say work, but i'm sure you must get so excited by playing with words, music,,,photos you let us see thru your wrting...god i'm happy to see i'm not so naïf by writng with my pencil.

I red La música del azar, and moon palace

i'm on the book of illusions right now. .. please keep on thinkin & rethinking bfore publishing....it's always a pleasure reading to you