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From: Critique[(essay date winter 2004) In the following essay, Oberman evaluates the existential dilemma of Auster's protagonist in The Music of Chance against the cultural and economic backdrop of late-capitalism.] I admire the...
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From: New Criterion[(review date April 1989) In the following excerpt, Bawer links Moon Palace to the novels that constitute The New York Trilogy in terms of Auster's overarching literary vision.] Moon Palace, a strange and arresting new...
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From: Paul Auster and Postmodern Quest: On the Road to Nowhere[(essay date 2002) In the following essay, Shiloh chronicles the interplay of random events and fate in The Music of Chance and applies Aristotle's study of tragedy to the novel's formal elements.] Chance is an...
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From: Review of Contemporary Fiction[(essay date Spring 1994) In the following essay, Lewis examines the narrative and thematic characteristics of Auster's "anti-detective" fiction and the elusive authorial presence of Auster.] The mystery is this: How...
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From: Understanding Paul Auster[(essay date 2010) In the following essay, Peacock compares Auster's In the Country of Last Things with several of his later works.] In the Country of Last Things was published by Viking Penguin New York in 1987 and...
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From: Critique[(essay date spring 1998) In the following essay, Dow outlines notions of autobiography, postmodernism, and narrative ambiguity in The Invention of Solitude.] Paul Auster's The Invention of Solitude uses and questions...
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From: Modern Fiction Studies[(essay date summer 2002) In the following essay, Walker chronicles the transformation of identity through criminal acts in Auster's work, highlighting the author's tendency to subvert familiar literary genres.] I had...
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From: San Francisco Review of Books[(essay date winter 1992) In the following essay, Frank examines Auster's public and private personae, recounting a conversation in which the author revealed insights into his creative process.] Together with his 1982...
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From: Washington Post Book World[(review date 29 March 1987) In the following review, Bleiler offers positive estimation of The Locked Room and In the Country of Last Things.] In City of Glass, the first volume of The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster...
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From: Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association[(essay date fall-winter 2000-2001) In the following essay, Cohen considers the writings and shared Jewish heritage of Auster and Edmond Jabès, situating their work in the broader literary context comprising the Talmud,...
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From: Spectator[(review date 18/25 December 2004) In the following review, Abell traces the development of Auster's writing style as reflected in Collected Novels: Volume I, and assesses a graphic novel version of City of Glass,...
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From: Arcadia[(essay date 2006) In this essay, Sarmento discusses the surreal, post-human, urban landscapes depicted in Paul Auster's In the Country of Last Things and Don DeLillo's Underworld and "The Angel Esmeralda," focusing on...
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From: Neophilologus[(essay date October 1991) In the following essay, Wesseling explores the apocalyptic paradigm of In the Country of Last Things, crediting Auster with reshaping prophetic discourse by contradicting the progression of...
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From: The New Republic[(review date 27 March 1989) In the following review, Birkerts provides an overview of Auster's fiction and evaluation of Moon Palace, which he finds promising but ultimately disappointing.] Paul Auster has been, until...
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From: The New York Times Book ReviewOne prepares, when picking up a novel that promises to be postapocalyptic, to change his critical kit bag. One prepares to find moral guidance and instructions for living in novels of the next world, in a way we've...
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From: Review of Contemporary Fiction[(essay date Spring 1994) In the following essay, Washburn examines the imagery, literary and historical allusions, and narrative design employed by Auster to portray the deterioration of civilization In the Country of...
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From: Interactions[(essay date 2009) In the following essay, Saraçh considers the postmodernist structure of Auster's In the Country of Last Things.] What happens to something that once used to be precious, valuable, or important and is...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPaul Auster's 'In the Country of Last Things' can be read as a modernist account of the soul's dread of existence. The story of Anna Blume's entrapment in a disappearing civilization is an analogy for everybody's plight...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPaul Auster's 'In the Country of Last Things' is a projection of the problems of contemporary society into an imagined future society. The story of Anna Blume searching for her brother in the ruins of a civilization...