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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... narrator's quest for his childhood friend Fanshawe . When Fan- shawe disappears , his wife asks the narrator , an old friend of her hus- band's , to help her find him and as the narrator becomes increasingly involved in his friend's ...
... narrator's quest for his childhood friend Fanshawe . When Fan- shawe disappears , his wife asks the narrator , an old friend of her hus- band's , to help her find him and as the narrator becomes increasingly involved in his friend's ...
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... narrator manages to resist this temp- tation , he accepts a commission to write a biography of Fanshawe , a pro- posal which he thinks will give him the opportunity to discover his friend's whereabouts and to understand his behaviour ...
... narrator manages to resist this temp- tation , he accepts a commission to write a biography of Fanshawe , a pro- posal which he thinks will give him the opportunity to discover his friend's whereabouts and to understand his behaviour ...
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... narrator , a writer himself , confronts the problem of gaining access to another person's self , and trying to turn the events of another man's life into a coherent narrative . Aaron , like the narrator of The Locked Room , becomes an ...
... narrator , a writer himself , confronts the problem of gaining access to another person's self , and trying to turn the events of another man's life into a coherent narrative . Aaron , like the narrator of The Locked Room , becomes an ...
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