An Insider’s Report

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“An Insider’s Report,” a part of the autobiography of American writer Paul Auster, translated by Ahmed Ziad Nasser.

After several books in which he addressed his life, including “A Winter’s Tale,” Auster dedicates this book to returning to his childhood years as they are preserved in his memory.

The “inside,” which Auster places in the book’s title, is synonymous with solitude, the only certain reality in his earthly life, as Auster reiterates in his books and through the lives of his novel’s protagonists, especially those of the famous “New York Trilogy,” with which he began his decades-long writing career. It is also the inner self to which we escape from everything that disrupts the purity of our rare moments. In the final chapter of this book, Auster addresses a letter to his wife, in which his vision of the world and the importance and centrality of the “inside” become clear to him, where he says: “For me, the world’s problem is first and foremost a personal one, and the solution can only be achieved by starting from within.”