With "Excursions in the inner area," Paul Auster offers us a new installment of his intimate conversations with himself started in 2013 with "Winter Chronicles". After discussing the time of entry into the aging, now the author explores the years of childhood and adolescence, until the end of his university studies. We find this benevolent tone and the sweetness (not indulgence) with itself and we are well acquainted with the questions that were his, of humble origins, a Jewish identity first and then ignored discovery through the discrimination suffered by his father, quickly feeling of not being quite like the others, more interested in literature, cinema and European culture (France where he went for his studies) by sport competition and rivalry with boys of his generation, especially in romantic conquests. A long relationship, essentially correspondence with that which will be his first wife ends this intimate exploration but still modest. Two very detailed accounts of films are original sequences by their place in this book, and interesting by their metaphorical power: one on the feeling of helplessness (The Incredible Shrinking Man-1957) and the other the sense of guilt (I'm an escaped-1932) that illustrate, from this period, the importance of these two themes in his work will come. Never really comfortable with his time, Paul Auster feels the difficulty of any intellectual face action, would become more involved, mobilizing for a fight, but knows from childhood that his life will be dedicated to the work of writing. It is always with great pleasure that we find this author.