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A Parallax Reality Shaping the Present in Paul Auster's Moon Palace and In the Country of Last Things
Authors: Hansen Ira
Publisher: BERGHAHN JOURNALS
Publication year: 2022
Journal: Transfers
Journal name in source: TRANSFERS-INTERDISCIPLINARY JOURNAL OF MOBILITY STUDIES
Journal acronym: TRANSFERS
Volume: 12
Issue: 2
First page : 35
Last page: 46
Number of pages: 12
ISSN: 2045-4813
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3167/TRANS.2022.120205
Web address : https://doi.org/10.3167/TRANS.2022.120205
Abstract
Engaging with the US author Paul Auster's fiction, the article explores how the stories his characters tell, in order to survive traumatic experiences, move them across their urban landscapes. Focusing on Auster's Moon Palace (1989) and In the Country of Last Things (1987), the article shows how the mobility of the main characters' stories opens a parallax view, which reveals the past as an integral part of the experience of the present moment and the negotiation of trauma.
Engaging with the US author Paul Auster's fiction, the article explores how the stories his characters tell, in order to survive traumatic experiences, move them across their urban landscapes. Focusing on Auster's Moon Palace (1989) and In the Country of Last Things (1987), the article shows how the mobility of the main characters' stories opens a parallax view, which reveals the past as an integral part of the experience of the present moment and the negotiation of trauma.
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