The Red Notebook

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Una silueta borrosa, como vista a través de un cristal empañado, un rostro parecido a aquellos con los que uno se cruza en sueños y cuyos rasgos se difuminan en cuanto intenta rememorarlos. I haven’t seen him since, but not due to any flat tyres) and mostly forgot about the coincidences I had experienced. I received a copy of The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain from its publishers, Gallic Books, via NetGalley in exchange for my honest review. The Red Notebook is the kind of book that will leave a smile on your face as you turn the last page.

Is it because he is a bookseller, a fellow lover of books and therefore we see purely positive intent and overlook what might be invasive and stalkerish? Laure eventually finds herself in much the same situation Laurent had been in: informed, by his traces, about a stranger but at first unable to determine who he is and then uncertain as to what steps to take once she identifies him.

This is cute and charming and very Gallic but also a little like a romantic fairytale as a man falls in love with a woman after finding her handbag. Auster narrated "Ground Zero" (2004), an audio guide created by the Kitchen Sisters (Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva) and Soundwalk [54] and produced by NPR, [55] which won the Dalton Pen Award for Multi-media/Audio (2005), [56] and was nominated for an Audie Award for best Original Work (2005).

Astutely, however, Gallic Books sent reviewers and booksellers an English-language pre-publication galley that was in fact simply an entirely undecorated red volume, working both as a red (filled) notebook and as a 'Cahier Rouge'; they do know their audiences . The real owner was elsewhere in the world for an undisclosed amount of time, I don’t remember where.

This elaborate investigation into the big what-if is also a mesmerizing dramatization of the multitude of clashing selves we each harbor within. This charming, romantic, and oh, so French, book hit the right spot after a few enjoyable (but heavy) reads.

Fakat bu kitapla birlikte, şimdiye kadar okuduğum New York Üçlemesi ve 4321 kitaplarındaki Now I don’t know much about actual French authors, so I felt a little lost at sea with the many French authors names and books mentioned…but that’s okay because it was actually just a tiny point to the story. observing that "Eighty per cent of a typical Auster novel proceeds in a manner indistinguishable from American realism; the remaining twenty per cent does a kind of postmodern surgery on the eighty per cent, often casting doubt on the veracity of the plot". Auster is conducting a grand experiment, not only in storytelling, but also in the endless nature-versus-nurture debate, the perpetual dance between inheritance and free will, intention and chance, dreams and fate.However, Laurent decides he can't meet Laure (the woman) after everything he's done (like pretending to be her boyfriend). The Red Notebook is about Laurent, a bookseller you can’t help but love as you learn things about him, and Lauren, a woman whose mystery you’d want to know about as much as Laurent, but sadly in a coma. in German)Sven Gächter: Schreiben ist eine endlose Therapie: Der amerikanische Romancier Paul Auster über das allmähliche Entstehen von Geschichten.