Talk:Paul Auster

message: This section on Themes is weighed down by the remnant of an old version of this page which goes back at least 14 years. Here’s how it read:
Here’s how it reads on 07 May 2024:  and
Now there are citation needed tags {cn} that are directly related to this assertion of “two influences on Auster’s writing.” It’s just not anything that can be corroborated by any web searches and using the ebscohost. Also, these citation needed tags are holding up this Auster WP article from being featured as a RD on the ITN page. Therefore I’m removing these remnants of a thesis only asserted by Heiko Jakubzik, although I did find a scholarly article on Auster and the transcendentalist but it’s in Spanish.Christian Roess (talk) 04:59, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Themes

message: It seems to me that the 'Reception' section is overly long and largely centers the views of one critic (James Wood) by quoting his criticisms of Auster. While criticism is entirely valid, I'm not sure how much it adds to the article having such a large chunk of it made up of a copy/paste from one critic's views on Auster. Would recommend significantly cutting this, does anyone have any thoughts or objections to this?Boredintheevening (talk) 02:53, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I would agree. At the very least, the parody should be completely scrapped. I don't think it is fitting for an encyclopedia and that Wood's description of Auster's prose preceeding the parody quotation is enough to make the point.--Zamomin (talk) 09:10, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Reception

message: This line stood out, as it seems opinionated ... Regarding Auster, "His later work has matured to be less pretentious in style while retaining its appeal to lovers of post-modern literature."
Was "Travels in the scriptorium" really "critically acclaimed"? I think it was the exact opposite.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.247.80.7 (talk) 23:49, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: There is no information on Auster's stylistic devices - occasionally some vague points are made in the individual articles on each of his published works, but there is nothing addressing the author's very well-defined style. For example, a few of the book-articles mention the almost autobiographical nature of Auster's characters, which is a strong theme throughout his work.
There is no article on Leviathan, one of his most acclaimed works... I was going to write a lengthy article on Leviathan myself, but now I'm considering doing a much shorter one, but adding more to this page in terms of style/themes etc. I could then link the various (short) book-articles back to the main thing, saving repetition, and further highlighting his rigidly structured style.
Also there are a few over-opinionated lines in the articles (as has already been noted) - I might change some of these around a bit. 
Any objections? If no one has replied within the next day or so, I'll start work!
bish 21:04, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Style? 

message: When referring to one of "Paul Auster's reappearing subjects," what does "American space" mean? I can think of at least three different connotations of this phrase, so can the contributor--or someone else --be more exact, or just delete this, the last of 14 (!) such items of reappearing subjects?Mwprods (talk) 21:47, 3 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Themes"? 

message: There is some contradiction as to what grade of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres he received and when. According to clapfilmes, in '92 he was made Commander, whereas biography.jrank says it was Chevalier. Enotes agrees with Chevalier, but says it was in '93. Once this is resolved, the info can be added to the article. Jay (talk) 13:44, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  French award - what and when? 

message: Just wondering if anyone would have details to add of this book  Cos Eile 15:10, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Auggie Wren 

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message: I've tried to tidy up the links section.
The following links seemed worthy of deletion to me, but feel free to challenge:
* The "review of the collected of poems" (http://moviesbooksandmusic.today.com/2009/06/18/paul-auster-collected-poems/) is a broken link.
* The "Literaturhaus Stuttgart, October 2, 2008" (http://www.literaturhaus-stuttgart.de/paul-auster.html) is a broken link.
* Garan Holcombe's 'Reflections On the Work of Paul Auster' (http://www.calitreview.com/Essays/paul_auster_5007.htm) is a broken link.
* The link to his UK publisher (http://www.faber.co.uk/) didn't seem informative to me, as it only links to their homepage, not to a specific Paul Auster page.
I tried to introduce an order - mainly grouping the links to interviews together and ordering them chronologically.
I'd also question the links to the Spanish and Portuguese blogs; as this is the English-language entry, perhaps they should only be on the Spanish-language and Portuguese-language entries respectively?
FrenchieAlexandre (talk) 01:30, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
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message: I know that Auster is well versed in the French canon, and that he's renowned as a translator. But grasping the extent and precise sort of this influence and whether or not he would call himself a postmodernist- putting aside if other people have- is difficult given the contents of this article. We seem to have different links attesting to (totally) different degrees of influence and personal association. A new version is called for.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.162.18.136 (talk) 00:48, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Questions of influence

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