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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: Washington Post Book World[(review date 26 March 1989) In the following review, Dirda offers positive assessment of Moon Palace.] Hemingway once remarked that "all modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry...
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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: 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: Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction[(essay date Summer 1991) In the following essay, Rowen examines Auster's detective-like investigations into the role of language as a medium of representation and the nature of reality in the modern world as portrayed...
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From: Critique[(essay date spring 1998) In the following essay, Fleck offers two interpretations of Leviathan, one characterized by metonymic language and the other by metaphor, suggesting the influence of Jacques Lacan on Auster's...
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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: Critique[(essay date winter 2003) In the following essay, Briggs underlines the elusive nature of identity in The New York Trilogy and asserts the interconnectedness inherent in all of Auster's work.] It was a wrong number...
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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: The American Book ReviewTitles, pictures, quotations, clippings. Coincidences which are, at first, only significant to the person who initially notices them, but which then are drawn out, riffed on, exegized, until they become larger....
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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: Studies in the Novel[(essay date spring 2009) In the following essay, Shostak considers Auster's methods for constructing narrative as shown in several representative works.] Paul Auster's recent novel, The Brooklyn Follies (2006), opens...
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From:South Atlantic Review (Vol. 74, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn his search for the essence of photography in Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes discovers that a photograph's force inheres in its insistence on an object's or an event's pastness. One cannot deny that "the thing has been...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPaul Auster's novels concentrate on the problematic gray areas of human life. His use of the detective form represents a world in which the truth seems withheld and difficult to unravel. Auster's novels such as 'The...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPaul Auster's 'The Invention of Solitude' makes memory a key aspect of self-definition. Self-definition can come only from interrelationships with others and this is possible only through memory. A being without memory...
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From:The Review of Contemporary Fiction (Vol. 14, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA fictionalized narrative of a Midwestern University professor's interaction with a writer explores the relation of critic to creator. There is a brief analysis of Paul Auster's 'The Music of Chance' and 'The Invention...