TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ilana Shiloh
PY  - 2012
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453910122
TI  - Paul Auster and Postmodern Quest
T2  - On the Road to Nowhere
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-1012-2
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1054408
N2  - 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 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.
KW  - Psychologie, Literaturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft
LA  - English
ER  -