Paul Auster quote

[n3cr0phelia]

In one of his books, Auster quotes the psychiatrist Oliver Sachs's belief that it is a sign of sanity to make an internal narrative of your life. Indeed, as Auster knows, although he has never been in therapy himself, the construction or reconstruction of such a narrative is the premise of psychoanalytic healing. When a writer makes up fictional

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[minsun]

I tend to agree. I love Auster's work. Did you read the Book of Illusions?

[n3cr0phelia]

I just discovered him thanks to one of my professors (who wrote an essay that's on paulaster.co.uk, here it is), we read New York Trilogy for a detective fiction course.

I really intend to read whatever I can get by him.

:)