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Title: Trusting Auster's Eyes
Review: The Book of Illusions--being the story of the narrator's encounter with Hector Mann, a former silent filmmaker--presents quite a few passages where the narrator describes one of Mann's films. As I was reading Auster's novel, I kept thinking I ought not to like the book so much. After all, describing Mann's work seems patently second-hand--"telling" in creative writing workshop language--and all the narrative commentary effectively takes interpretation out of readers' hands. Yet, I could not put the book down. The forthright prose and the resulting sincerity of the narrator won me over. I didn't mind his being my eyes and ears. Auster's movies seemed real. While I didn't find myself watching the movies with him, he did make me want to watch them. Narrators you care about can overcome any skepticism.
