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From: Washington Post Book World[(review date 23 May 1999) In the following review, Yardley offer positive assessment of Timbuktu.] To say that Paul Auster's new novel is a departure from his previous work is true but inadequate, for each of his...
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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: Book[(review date September/October 2002) In the following review, Evans admires Auster's passion for philosophical inquiry, language, and the narrative form in The Book of Illusions.] David Zimmer is shattered, on the eve...
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From: Library Journal[(review date 1 September 2002) In the following review, the critic considers The Book of Illusions a showcase for Auster's unique talents.] Paul Auster's last two novels, Mr. Vertigo and Timbuktu, introduced admirers...
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From: New Statesman[(review date 14 October 2002) In the following review, Mundy contends that Auster successfully combines "metaphysical playfulness with human seriousness" in The Book of Illusions and declares it the author's best work.]...
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From: Los Angeles Times Book Review[(review date 27 June 1999) In the following review, Levi offers positive assessment of Timbuktu.] On the cover of Paul Auster's latest novel, Timbuktu, half the face of a dog peers out at the prospective buyer, daring...
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From: World Literature Today[(review date spring 2000) In the following review, Bronson asserts that, although somewhat conspicuous in its humor and pathos, Timbuktu "may be Paul Auster's most accessible novel, intellectually and emotionally."]...
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From:Forum for World Literature Studies (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis paper implicitly engages with the homology of disability and animality as it brings together disability studies and animal studies in its analysis of three narratives with "disabled" characters. It suggests new...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 39, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAn exploration of traditional and "new" literary anthropomorphism and the fascination, problems, and limitations of imagining "being animal," this essay presents a contrasting analysis of canine constructs and their...