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Paul Auster and the influence of Maurice Blanchot

By Maurice , Arce , María Laura; Auster , Paul; Blanchot

Book information

Publisher
McFarland & Company
Year
2016
ISBN
9781476663616, 9781476624907, 1476663610
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1479947 bytes)
Pages
viii-167 pages; 23 cm\177
Time added
2020-11-29 04:17:01

Description

Poet, writer and filmmaker Paul Auster is one of the great contributors to American postmodern literature. Influenced by authors like Poe and the hardboiled detective stories of the 1950s, Auster's novels represented a new genre of "anti-detective fiction," in which the case itself loses direction and is overshadowed by existential questions. Analyzing three of his novels--Ghosts(1986),The Music of Chance(1990) andMr. Vertigo(1994)--this critical study explores the intertextual relationship between Auster's work and the oeuvre of French writer and critic Maurice Blanchot. The author explores Auster's work as a fictionalization of Blanchot's concept of inspiration and the construction of imaginary space.

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