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stevo67 's review for:
Travels in the Scriptorium
by Paul Auster
What a strange book. If on a winter's night...esque. An authorly froth through memory etc. I was engrossed by the story and wanted to know where it would go. Predictably it went nowhere.
After reading it I saw reviews mention all the characters in the novel are from his other books and Mr Blank is Auster. It seems the story is about an author living with the characters he has created. This book is probably a clever comment on what it means to be a writer - you can get caught up in your own head and in your own stories. You can come to believe that the people you create are close friends.
All that was lost on me because I hadn't read any other Auster. I wonder, don't books have to stand on their own and not be cross-referential?
After reading it I saw reviews mention all the characters in the novel are from his other books and Mr Blank is Auster. It seems the story is about an author living with the characters he has created. This book is probably a clever comment on what it means to be a writer - you can get caught up in your own head and in your own stories. You can come to believe that the people you create are close friends.
All that was lost on me because I hadn't read any other Auster. I wonder, don't books have to stand on their own and not be cross-referential?