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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... past , but also the acceptance that a return to this past is no longer possible . The point is not that Quinn is a hard - boiled detective ; it is , rather , that things would be a lot easier if only he were . This nostalgia is also ...
... past , but also the acceptance that a return to this past is no longer possible . The point is not that Quinn is a hard - boiled detective ; it is , rather , that things would be a lot easier if only he were . This nostalgia is also ...
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... past that it contains bring a sense of the past to what appears to be a non - referential present . Robbe - Grillet stated that the use of the past tense , the novel that began with a ' There was once ... ' type of narration ...
... past that it contains bring a sense of the past to what appears to be a non - referential present . Robbe - Grillet stated that the use of the past tense , the novel that began with a ' There was once ... ' type of narration ...
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... past . It teaches and enacts the recognition of the fact that the social , historical , and existential " reality " of the past is discursive reality.'4 In Auster's fiction , the emphasis is always on subjectivity which stems from the ...
... past . It teaches and enacts the recognition of the fact that the social , historical , and existential " reality " of the past is discursive reality.'4 In Auster's fiction , the emphasis is always on subjectivity which stems from the ...
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