Granta Paul Auster Interview
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Uploaded by Grantamagazine on May 20, 2009
Grantas new issue, Granta 106: Fiction Special, includes Invisible, an extract from Paul Austers forthcoming novel of the same name. Auster is an internationally acclaimed author of more than twenty books of fiction, non-fiction and poetry. He is also a frequent Granta contributor Invisible marks the eighth appearance of his work in the magazine. In this exclusive Granta interview, he talks about the emotional intimacy and intertextual exercises of his fiction, the intensity of youth, the unsettling quality of narrative clarity and his writing process.
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ZIONist !
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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.
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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!
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Extremly sexy voice!
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@funktrane I could listen to him all day. Wish he was doing a reading here
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@moher1999 do you know where I can find this, I love Paul Auster's work too
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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
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"... 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.
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Easily my favourite modern author.
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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!
siggiola32 2 years ago 10
Very sexy voice.
funktrane 1 year ago 6