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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... references to American culture are often subordinated to a larger project of a more philosophical quality . Auster bemoans the loss of a ' philosophical dimen- sion ' from recent American writing ; he sees it in Melville , Hawthorne ...
... references to American culture are often subordinated to a larger project of a more philosophical quality . Auster bemoans the loss of a ' philosophical dimen- sion ' from recent American writing ; he sees it in Melville , Hawthorne ...
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... references to Melville yields new interpre- tations of the three stories and provides a new stance from which to examine Auster's relationship with the writings of the Transcendentalists . Back in Grand Central Station , Quinn is awoken ...
... references to Melville yields new interpre- tations of the three stories and provides a new stance from which to examine Auster's relationship with the writings of the Transcendentalists . Back in Grand Central Station , Quinn is awoken ...
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... references to mad visionaries , tormented or marginalised writers , would in previous Auster novels have established the kind of intertextual link that would encourage a recognition of affinity ; here , they seem to suggest very little ...
... references to mad visionaries , tormented or marginalised writers , would in previous Auster novels have established the kind of intertextual link that would encourage a recognition of affinity ; here , they seem to suggest very little ...
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