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Article: The strange case of Paul Auster. (Paul Auster/Danilo Kis)
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- The Review of Contemporary Fiction
- Article date:
- March 22, 1994
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THE MYSTERY IS THIS: How can we best classify the works of Paul Auster? Exhibit I is a statement he makes about one of his characters: "What interested him about the stories he wrote was not their relation to the world but their relation to other stories."(1) Auster's fictional world is an austere one, composed of reconfigured plots and reworked motifs drawn from the history of American literature and his own back catalog, and this makes it difficult to untangle the many different intertextual threads which stitch his stories together. One consistent theme is that of the detective's search for a missing person, so in this inspection I too shall turn detective and search ...
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Article: How do you introduce Paul Auster in three minutes? ...
The Review of Contemporary Fiction;
March 22, 1994 ;
700+ words
... ... couch, do not sit at that table where Paul Auster is innocently cutting cards. Just don ... power and lots of tranquilizers." Paul Auster allows his characters a crack at free ... loves these people and shows us how. Paul Auster's work displays a joy in velocity ...
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