
The World that is the Book
Paul Auster's Fiction
Aliki Varvogli(Author)
Liverpool University Press
Published on 1. September 2001
Book
Hardback
200 pages
978-0-85323-687-0 (ISBN)
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Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Liverpool
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 239 mm
Width: 163 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-85323-687-0 (9780853236870)
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Person
Dr Aliki Varvogli is Lecturer in English at the University of Dundee.
Content
Acknowledgements
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