Paul Auster and the Influence of Maurice Blanchot
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781476663616
Subjects: American literature, foreign influences
Description: "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"--