Title: Paul Auster and the Influence of Maurice Blanchot
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"--
Subjects: American literature, foreign influences, Criticism and interpretation, Influence, Postmodernism (Literature)