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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... sense of plenitude and economy . In the good mystery there is nothing wasted , no sentence , no word that is not signif- icant ' ( CG 8 ) . Quinn sees in these books the consolation of form ; we are given to understand that he clings to ...
... sense of plenitude and economy . In the good mystery there is nothing wasted , no sentence , no word that is not signif- icant ' ( CG 8 ) . Quinn sees in these books the consolation of form ; we are given to understand that he clings to ...
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... sense of uncanny bureaucratic entanglements but in the Kierkegaardian sense of a divine order that eludes human comprehension . There is this major difference : where Kafka and Kierkegaard hypothesize a deity essentially separate from ...
... sense of uncanny bureaucratic entanglements but in the Kierkegaardian sense of a divine order that eludes human comprehension . There is this major difference : where Kafka and Kierkegaard hypothesize a deity essentially separate from ...
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... sense of the loss of a centre . One after another , his protagonists abandon themselves to the world at large in the hope of attaining a universal truth , of discovering a governing principle that will impart sense to their lives and ...
... sense of the loss of a centre . One after another , his protagonists abandon themselves to the world at large in the hope of attaining a universal truth , of discovering a governing principle that will impart sense to their lives and ...
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