Abstract :
Paul 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 in the contemporary world. The novel presents Anna at the brink of moral death but concludes with Anna attempting to assert her spirituality. Her experience with the charity work at Woburn House gives her the enthusiasm to regain her morality.