The World that is the Book Paul Auster's Fiction
Aliki Varvogli
Abstract
The book offers an 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 ... More
Keywords: literary sources, cultural sources, language, chance, individual, philosophical underpinnings, factual, imagined
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2001 | Print ISBN-13: 9780853236870 |
| Published to Liverpool Scholarship Online: June 2013 | DOI:10.5949/UPO9781846314469 |
