Travels in the Scriptorium: Book Review
Having recently read Auster’s Brooklyn Follies and enjoyed it quite a bit, i stole Travels in the Scriptorium: A Novel from Bryan’s bookshelf to read on the two-hour train from NYC to Baltimore.
I didn’t like it. At first, i was captivated by the post-modern “what’s going on here”-ness of the narrative. However, once i started to pick up on enough clues, it wasn’t as captivating. The last pages of the book were heavy-handed - a criticism that i have seen launched against Auster on a number of occasions and which i hadn’t agreed with over Brooklyn Follies. I didn’t find the insight particularly engaging or the “surprising twist” particularly exciting. I’m going to keep picking up Auster’s novels, but i wouldn’t recommend this one.
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