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מפרסמת את הביקורת באנגלית ועמכם הסליחה (הסיבה: דירגתי את הספר באתר Goodreads ומפה לשם התגלגלתי לכתוב את הביקורת ויצא שזה קרה באנגלית אז זרמתי עם זה). כך או כך, הנה היא גם פה:

I'll begin from the bottom line: in my opinion, you can't really go wrong with an Auster book - he's truly a master of writing, which is something that can be attributed to a very few novelists these days (among them you can also find Stephen King). Of course, some may not like their prose but one can not argue with their tremendous success and part of it must be associated with their outstanding style and simply way of telling a story well.

"The red notebook" is actually a collection of snippets from Auster's autobiography and since he has written at least 3 of those in different formats ("The invention of solitude", "Hand to mouth" and "Winter journal"), not to mention his other novels that combine some biographical facts, then all in all - some of the stories like "Why write?" are known already to the reader.
Having said that, as mentioned in this review's opening - it's Auster which means it's always written well and no matter how familiar the story is, he still manages to shed a light on an unfamiliar aspect of it.
Besides "Why write?", the other stories were unfamiliar for me and all of them had the beloved "Austeric" combination of coincidence, faith, uncertainty and "undetermined truth". It's the kind of stories you can imagine Auster telling around the dinner table sitting among friends, the kind of stories that will draw the attention of any circle of people. These real life stories also demonstrate the core of Auster's literature - in a way, they complete the fiction, which in itself is embedded in some sort of a limbo between truth and false, real and what may seem almost too far-fetched. But since we're talking here about Auster and the reader is already well familiar with his idiosyncratic themes (the name Auster is synonymous to coincidence like Kafka is synonymous to arbitrariness), it seems to me that this (very) short book, besides being an enjoyable one sit read, helps to stretch out even more of the already very stretched boards of the possible and what seems to us sometimes unlikable and even impossible plots in Auster's fiction.
More so, it makes you wonder how much of his supposedly fictional plots are actually based on true events like those in "The red notebook" - although eventually it doesn't really matter what's true and what isn't except for natural curiosity & some healthy gossip ;) Auster's prose, whether it's fictional or not, embraces it all and with that leaves you without any certainty to hold on to, which can be quit scary at first but mostly liberating (not to mention enjoyable).In this sense he reminds me of Gabriel Garcia Marquez - but that's for another time or review.

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