It's always a nice surprise when a book you refer to almost randomly in your work ends up having multiple thematic overlap, so that it doesn't' feel gratuitous. Also there is a nice feeling of cosmic order, the reassurance that your unconscious is organizing much more that it's letting on.
THE NOVELIST OUT OF CONTROL
When he starts to write a novel, Paul Auster said, ''I begin with a personality, rather than an idea. And the person becomes very real to me. It's almost as though I give myself up and enter into that other consciousness.''
The process is not as impulsive as it is reckless. ''It's a funny thing,'' Mr. Auster said, ''but I'm not actually in control of what I'm doing. I think a lot of writers feel this way.'' He was talking on the telephone from the Brooklyn studio - he doesn't work at home - where he wrote ''Moon Palace,'' his fifth novel.
''The story and the characters become so real,'' he said, ''that they lead you along. It's a matter of following them correctly and not pushing them off the track.''
But even the surest of foot, of course, cannot always stay the course. ''Early on in every project I've gone off track and had to throw away six, eight months' work,'' Mr. Auster said. ''There is an idea that's shining through all the material somehow, and the obligation is to find that core and stick to it.''
Mr. Auster, who is 42 years old, said that it took a long time for him to find the idea that, quite literally, shines through ''Moon Palace.'' (The book takes its name from a Chinese restaurant - and its bright neon sign - on Broadway near the campus of Columbia University.) ''This novel was knocking around in my head for many years before I actually sat down and wrote it,'' he said. ''Then the sign came in at a certain point and was a way of crystallizing all the images and unifying the book for me.''
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