The Planeta publishing house has launched, through its Booket label, one of those books for those who want to get closer to the world of the writer or for those who dream of being able to dedicate themselves to writing professionally. Is about The Inner Life of Martin Frost. I personally prefer the book of Stephen King, While i write, a work between the didactic and the autobiographical.
But I do not intend to detract from this novel by Paul austerThey are simply different from that approach to the world of the storyteller. The Inner Life of Martin Frost It was published in Spain ten years ago, a more than adequate time for a traditional writer to write about the fact of writing, living from writing and surviving to tell about it.
And when the writer can devote himself to sitting nonchalantly and narrating about the world in which he lived, it turns out that what is more than necessary is to enter the writer's way of thinking, in his way of seeing the world as a cascade of worldly anomalies , of anecdotes, of incomprehension and of sudden lucidity, that of some muses who laugh at the poor unhinged writer.
Being a writer is not always as sweet as it seems ... A book taken to the cinema, if you prefer the version of the seventh art, directed by Paul Auster himself:
Martin Frost has spent the last few years writing a novel and he needs a break. His friends Jack and Anne Restau have gone on a trip and have offered him their country house. But in the middle of the silence an idea begins to spin in his head and Martin begins to write. It will not be a long story and he will stay with his friends until it is finished. He wakes up the next day to a half-naked girl in his bed who says her name is Claire, who is Anne's niece, apologizes and is finally accepted by Martin.
But the story he's writing and the desire for Claire grow at the same time. And when the writing of the story comes to an end, the mysterious and carnal Claire - the Restau do not have nieces - begins to fall ill ... Martin Frost's inner life has a complicated history. At first it was a thirty minute script.
The project ran aground. It then became one of the last films of Hector Mann, the protagonist of The Book of Illusions. And now it's this movie script that Paul Auster has written and directed. «His characters are tireless inquisitors and when they do not travel the world, they embark on an inner journey. But always the odyssey, immense or insignificant, is at the center of his work ”(Garan Holcombe, California Literary Review).
You can now buy the novel The Inner Life of Martin Frost, a great book by Paul Auster, here: