Will's Students, Brennan

[J.D. P. Lafrance]

    Your whole notion of what is the truth and an unreliable narrator and such
makes me think of another Paul Auster work - the screenplay he wrote for the
film Smoke which dealt with many of themes you discuss - albeit not in such
detail... In that film he examines the whole notion of not only what you
describe as "basing his story on other people's stories and on his assumptions,"
which he in fact does - William Hurt's character, Paul has been rumoured to be a
based on Auster (although he denies this in interviews) and in fact near the end
of the film, Harvey Keitel's character, Auggie tells a story to Paul that Auster
actually wrote for the New York Times... The film is also about storytelling in
general and seems to say that everyone has a story to tell and many of them are
interesting and valid in their own right.

bfn,
JDL