The imagery of writing in the early works of Paul Auster : from stones to books / by Clara Sarmento.
By: Sarmento, Clara [author.].
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BookPublisher: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 139 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781443870887; 1443870889.Subject(s): Auster, Paul, 1947- -- Criticism and interpretation | American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism | LITERARY CRITICISM / American / GeneralGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Imagery of writing in the early works of Paul Auster.DDC classification: 813/.54 Online resources: EBSCOhost | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter One; Ground Work: Selected Poems and Essays; The Art of Hunger; The Music of Chance; Chapter Two; White Spaces; The Invention of Solitude; The New York Trilogy (I); Leviathan; In The Country of Last Things; Chapter Three; The New York Trilogy (II); Moon Palace; Chapter Four; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
The early works of Paul Auster convey the loneliness of the individual fully committed to the work of writing, as if he were confined within the book that dominates his life. All through Auster's poetry, essays and fiction, the work of writing is an actual physical effort, an effective construction, as if the words aligned in the poem-text were stones to place in a row when building a wall or some other structure in stone.This book studies the symbolism of the genetic substance of the world (re)built through the work of writing, inside the walls of the room, closed in space and time, though op.
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