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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... character in a poem by Kurt Schwitters , is also Scheherazade , and she owes her existence to Kafka's and Hamsun's ... characters real and imaginary , and his initials , MS , are the clearest clue to his identity . He likens himself to ...
... character in a poem by Kurt Schwitters , is also Scheherazade , and she owes her existence to Kafka's and Hamsun's ... characters real and imaginary , and his initials , MS , are the clearest clue to his identity . He likens himself to ...
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... characters . By emphasising the par- allels between his book and Thoreau's , Auster simultaneously draws attention to himself as author , and renounces the authority associated with that role . As for his characters , whose job it is to ...
... characters . By emphasising the par- allels between his book and Thoreau's , Auster simultaneously draws attention to himself as author , and renounces the authority associated with that role . As for his characters , whose job it is to ...
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... characters reappear in a series of novels.30 In the case of writers such as Balzac or Trollope , the device is used to heighten the effect of realism and to reinforce the illusion that characters exist outside the text , living and ...
... characters reappear in a series of novels.30 In the case of writers such as Balzac or Trollope , the device is used to heighten the effect of realism and to reinforce the illusion that characters exist outside the text , living and ...
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