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Paul Auster (Paperback)
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Paul Auster (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary American and Canadian Writers
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Paul Auster provides the first extended analysis of Auster's
essays, poetry, fiction, films and collaborative projects. It
explores his key themes of identity; language and writing;
metropolitan living and community; and storytelling and illusion.
By tracing how Auster's representations of New York and city life
have matured from a position of urban nihilism to qualified
optimism, the book shows how the variety of forms he works in
influences the treatment of his central concerns. The chapters are
organised around gradually extending spaces to reflect the way in
which Auster's work broadens its focus, beginning with the poet's
room and finishing with the global metropolis of New York: his home
city and often his muse. The book uses Auster's published and
unpublished literary essays to explain the shifts from the dense
and introspective poems of the 70s, through the metropolitan
fictions of the 80s and early 90s, to the relatively optimistic and
critically acclaimed films, and his return to fiction in recent
years. Objectivist poets, and that of European modernists such as
Kafka and Hamsun is explored in depth. Because of Auster's
consistent concern with living in New York, urban commentators
provide important insights into the metropolitan experiences of
Auster's central characters. Benjamin's description of the flaneur,
for example, along with de Certeau's discussion of walking in New
York, provide the cultural context for the exploration of Auster's
urban stories. This book will be invaluable for general readers,
students and specialists.
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