The World that is the Book: Paul Auster's FictionLiverpool University Press, 2001 - 184 páginas The World that is the Book offers an in-depth analysis of Paul Auster’s fiction. It explores the rich literary and cultural sources that Auster taps into in order to create compelling stories that investigate the nature of language, the workings of chance, and the individual’s complex relations with the world at large. Whereas most Auster criticism has concentrated on readings of individual novels, this book emphasizes the continuity in Auster’s writing by discussing throughout the philosophical underpinnings that lead the author to question the boundaries separating the fictional from the factual, and the real from the imagined. |
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... Country of Last Things and The Music of Chance also put writing itself into question , but they do so in a more conventional manner than The Book of Questions . One of the ways in which Auster creates his own ' poetics of absence ' is ...
... Country of Last Things and The Music of Chance also put writing itself into question , but they do so in a more conventional manner than The Book of Questions . One of the ways in which Auster creates his own ' poetics of absence ' is ...
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... Country of Last Things a simple plot and an austere narrative tone . What they also have in common is a preoccupation with the individual's struggle against unseen powers , and strong allegorical overtones . The presence of ' Wakefield ...
... Country of Last Things a simple plot and an austere narrative tone . What they also have in common is a preoccupation with the individual's struggle against unseen powers , and strong allegorical overtones . The presence of ' Wakefield ...
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... Country of Last Things , there is a food shortage in the entire city , and those people who do not die of starvation are reduced to talking about food , the description of long , elaborate meals being the closest they can get to ...
... Country of Last Things , there is a food shortage in the entire city , and those people who do not die of starvation are reduced to talking about food , the description of long , elaborate meals being the closest they can get to ...
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