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Title: The Story of My Typewriter by Paul Auster, Sam Messer ISBN: 1-891024-32-9 Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers Pub. Date: 13 September, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The best book I have ever bought!
Comment: Anyone who enjoys a good Paul Auster story or the briliant paintings of Sam Messer will love this book. I am an artist myself and I recomend this to anyone who is at all interested in Messers work. The typewriters are beautiful. I want to buy this book for everyone I know.
Rating: 3
Summary: A Good Coffeetable Book
Comment: If you are a typewriter fetishist or a Paul Auster devotee, then you will find a justification for buying this book. That said, I must say that the book is a bit too thin, both in volume and content, to justify a purchase for most people. This book is mostly about Sam Messer, an artist friend of Auster, who became infatuated with Auster's Olympia portable typewriter (those who are curious about the specific model name/number, it looks to be a SM 9). Over the period of twenty years or so, he painted the typewriter. The paintings are intimate and beautifully done; the best ones feature Auster in the composition. These are perhaps the loveliest depictions of a typewriter you'll find out there, and if you are a typewriter aficionado, you will love this book. Paul Auster provides a perfunctory anecdotal history of his typewriter, and at reaching the end of the book, I empathized with him (and many other writers like him) who attach illogical but mysterious significance to a writing instrument. The book is handsome, and a breezy read; you can read the whole thing in fifteen minutes - perfect for your houseguests.
Rating: 3
Summary: Amusing Coffeetable Book, Not Much More
Comment: If you're a typewriter fetishist or Paul Auster devotee, this book is definitely worth it. I am a bit of both, so the book is quite an endearing eyecandy for me. This slim volume is really the work of Sam Messer, an artist who became enamored with Auster's Olympia portable (I think SM 8 or 9) and decided to paint it everytime he visited. The paintings are quite good, as a matter of fact. Auster provides a quick, anecdotal history of his typewriter, and if you are a writer, you will empathize how he or anyone can grow so enamored with a writing tool.
Is this a book worth adding to your collection with paid money? Yes, if you are into Auster and you believe in the superstitious mythical powers that all rational and intelligent writers place in their writing machines. In my personal opinion, this piece belonged in a nice art magazine.
If you want to get a book that Auster's work intersects with art, check out "Double Game", a collaborative effort by Sophie Calle and Paul Auster. There is no finer blending of fact/fiction, art/literature in contemporary literature.
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Title: Oracle Night : A Novel by Paul Auster ISBN: 0805073205 Publisher: Henry Holt & Company, Inc. Pub. Date: 02 December, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure by Paul Auster ISBN: 0312422326 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The New York Trilogy: City of Glass, Ghosts, the Locked Room (Contemporary American Fiction Series) by Paul Auster ISBN: 0140131558 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Leviathan (Contemporary American Fiction) by Paul Auster ISBN: 0140178139 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: September, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Book of Illusions: A Novel by Paul Auster ISBN: 0312421818 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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