Title: Paul Auster and the influence of Maurice Blanchot /
Authors: Arce, María Laura, 1979-
Year: 2016
Subjects: Auster, Paul, Criticism and interpretation.; Blanchot, Maurice Influence.; Postmodernism (Literature)
Abstract: "Poet, writer and filmmaker Paul Auster is one of the great contributors to American postmodern literature. Influenced by authors like Poe and the hardboiled detective stories of the 1950s, Auster's novels represented a new genre of "anti-detective fiction," in which the case itself loses direction and is overshadowed by existential questions"--
Contents: Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Paul Auster and Maurice Blanchot: An Intertextual Relation -- The Gaze of Orpheus: A Theory of Inspiration -- Ghosts: The Writing Inspiration of the Other -- The Music of Chance: Inspiration for the Construction of a New Universe -- Mr. Vertigo: The Inspiration of the Created Object -- Afterword -- Chapter Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.