World that is the Book
Paul Auster’s Fiction
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
200 pages
|
© 2001
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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Legacies
—Yea-Saying
—Nay-Saying
2. Austerities
—The Unnamable
—A Hunger Artist
—Wall Writing
3. Realities
—Inventing America
—Exploding Fictions
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Legacies
—Yea-Saying
—Nay-Saying
2. Austerities
—The Unnamable
—A Hunger Artist
—Wall Writing
3. Realities
—Inventing America
—Exploding Fictions
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
For more information, or to order this book, please visit http://www.press.uchicago.edu
Google preview here
Literature and Literary Criticism: Fiction
You may purchase this title at these fine bookstores. Outside the USA, see our international sales information.
