In this acrobatic and virtuosic collection, Paul Auster traces the compulsion to make literature. In a selection of interviews, as well as in the essay 'The Red Notebook' itself, Auster reflects upon his own work, on the need to break down the boundary between living and writing, and on the use of certain genre conventions to penetrate matters of memory and identity.
The Red Notebook both illuminates and undermines our accepted notions about literature, and guides us towards a finer understanding of the dangerously high stakes involved in writing. It also includes Paul Auster's impassioned essay 'A Prayer for Salman Rushdie', as well as a set of striking and bittersweet reminiscences collected under the apposite title, 'Why Write?'
- ISBN10 0571174329
- ISBN13 9780571174324
- Publish Date 1 August 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 May 2000
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Faber & Faber
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 176
- Language English