Paul Auster and Postmodern Quest On the Road to Nowhere |
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| Author:
| Shiloh, Ilana |
| Series title: | Modern American Literature Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8204-6167-0 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 2002 |
| Publisher: | Peter Lang AG International Academic Publishers
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $60.95 |
Book Description:
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Paul Auster published his first prose work, the autobiographical
The Invention of Solitude, in 1982; since then his fiction has gained ever growing popular and critical acclaim. This book is a stimulating pioneering study of eight works that make up the Auster canon:
The Invention of Solitude, the three novellas that comprise
The New York Trilogy, and the novels
In the Country of Last Things, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, and
Leviathan. Focusing...
More DescriptionPaul Auster published his first prose work, the autobiographical The Invention of Solitude, in 1982; since then his fiction has gained ever growing popular and critical acclaim. This book is a stimulating pioneering study of eight works that make up the Auster canon: The Invention of Solitude, the three novellas that comprise The New York Trilogy, and the novels In the Country of Last Things, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance, and Leviathan. Focusing on the quest - which she sees as the master narrative of all of Auster's novels - Shiloh examines Auster's writing in a multi-layered context of literary and philosophical paradigms relevant to his practice, such as the American tradition of the «open road,» the generic conventions of detective fiction, postmodernist concepts of the subject, Sartre's and Camus's existentialist theories, and Freud's and Lacan's psychoanalytic models, all of which offer enriching and insightful perspectives on Auster's poetics.