Academic literature on the topic 'Paul Auster'

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior<br>This thesis examines Paul Austers extremely neglected early work: his poetry. Five books were published: Unearth (1974), Wall writing (1976), Effigies (1977), Fragments from cold (1977) and Facing the music (1980), available only at antiquarians and restrective universities libraries in the United States, as well as at the New York Public Library. Studies around Austers poetic oeuvre are restricted to papers, reviews, translators introduction, and a thesis that focus on his poetry to produce new analyses and interpretations of Austers novelistic works. The aim of this thesis is to gather this scattered material and provide new parameters of study around his poetry. Divided into three chapters, the first one maps the literary magazines where Auster published his poems at first, the translations of his poems and critical fortune; the second examines Austers five books according to three specific topics authorship, language, I and other themes related to them; the third analyzes White Spaces, text considered by the author as the bridge that leads him to prose and in this thesis as a singular writing in which Auster consolidates his literary project, since poetry, previous to prose, yet to come. Maurice Blanchot, Karlheinz Stierle and, principally, Auster, lay the foundation of the investigation. Other theorists who contribute to the understanding of the subject will be called to build the sui generis comparativism put into effect here<br>This thesis examines Paul Austers extremely neglected early work: his poetry. Five books were published: Unearth (1974), Wall writing (1976), Effigies (1977), Fragments from cold (1977) and Facing the music (1980), available only at antiquarians and restrective universities libraries in the United States, as well as at the New York Public Library. Studies around Austers poetic oeuvre are restricted to papers, reviews, translators introduction, and a thesis that focus on his poetry to produce new analyses and interpretations of Austers novelistic works. The aim of this thesis is to gather this scattered material and provide new parameters of study around his poetry. Divided into three chapters, the first one maps the literary magazines where Auster published his poems at first, the translations of his poems and critical fortune; the second examines Austers five books according to three specific topics authorship, language, I and other themes related to them; the third analyzes White Spaces, text considered by the author as the bridge that leads him to prose and in this thesis as a singular writing in which Auster consolidates his literary project, since poetry, previous to prose, yet to come. Maurice Blanchot, Karlheinz Stierle and, principally, Auster, lay the foundation of the investigation. Other theorists who contribute to the understanding of the subject will be called to build the sui generis comparativism put into effect here

Texte remanié de: Thèse de doctorat--Études de l'aire culturelle anglophone--Aix-Marseille 1, 2002. Titre de soutenance : Le monde, le moi et l'autre dans l'oeuvre de Paul Auster.<br>Bibliogr. p. 315-323.

O presente trabalho busca explorar como a dimensão do traumático incide na literatura contemporânea, mais especificamente, na literatura de um escritor nova-iorquino, Paul Auster. Supomos que as modalidades de subjetivação de determinado período histórico podem ser investigadas a partir de objetos estéticos culturais particulares, ou, pelo menos, que determinadas obras podem servir como uma espécie de testemunho e de historiografia dos sofrimentos de uma época. Esboçamos possíveis ressonâncias entre o plano geral da cultura e da história e o das qualidades específicas e expressivas de uma obra determinada, o que abre espaço para um diálogo entre esses domínios. Com isso, contudo, não se espera privilegiar o que é externo à obra em detrimento dela, e muito menos explicar a literatura pelo recurso a teorias e sistemas de compreensão prévios. Ao contrário, partimos de uma leitura próxima e imanente às obras para realizar ensaios a partir de três livros de Paul Auster: A invenção da solidão, O livro das ilusões e Noite do oráculo. Tais leituras seguiram uma espécie de ética da hospitalidade enquanto ética da leitura. Seguindo de perto as obras, e instalando-se nelas como num regime de habitação, fomos abrindo pontos de contato e comunicação entre as obras, bem como com outras dimensões da história, principalmente no que concerne a aspectos traumáticos e catastróficos. Os ensaios aventam a hipótese de que os livros de Paul Auster escolhidos demonstram, em seu aspecto mais formal, aspectos importantes do que veio a ser conhecido, na psicanálise, como compulsão à repetição. Além disso, a transmissão de aspectos indigestos e traumáticos transgeracionais, por via de criptas psíquicas, pode ser observada na própria autobiografia de Paul Auster, notadamente, A Invenção da solidão. As vicissitudes e destinos do trauma em sua dimensão transgeracional e individual são articuladas com o plano da cultura e com outros pensadores. Propomos, também, uma modalidade de leitura reparadora, em contraposição a uma leitura paranoica, para responder à complexidade e às ambiguidades das obras selecionadas<br>The present thesis aims to explore how the dimension of the traumatic concurs in contemporary literature, particularly in the one by New Yorker writer Paul Auster. It is supposed that the forms of subjectivity in a certain historical period can be searched into on the basis of particular cultural aesthetic objects. Or, at least, certain pieces of work can render as some sort of witness, as well as historiography of suffering in a particular era. It has been possible to outline some resonances between the general cultural and historical level ground and the one of expressive and specific qualities in a certain work, which opens space for a dialog between these domains. Nevertheless it is not expected neither to grant a privilege to what is external to the piece of work to its detriment, nor to explain literature from the theories and systems of previous comprehension. To the contrary, a close and immanent reading has been made, in order to make an assay, out of three of Paul Austers books: The invention of solitude, The book of illusions and Oracle Night. Such reading has followed some kind of hospitality ethics whereas reading ethics. Accompanying closely these works, and settling down on them as in a habitation regime, points of communication were opened between them, as well as with other dimensions of history, mainly to what concerns traumatic and catastrophic aspects. The assays suggest the hypothesis that these chosen Austers books demonstrate, in their formal aspect, important features of what has become known in Psychoanalysis as compulsion of repeating. Furthermore, the transmission of transgenerational indigestive and traumatic aspects, through psychic crypts, can be observed in Austers autobiography The invention of solitude. The vicissitudes and destinies of trauma on its transgenerational and individual dimensions are articulated with the cultural level ground and with other authors. It is also proposed a modality of repairing reading, in opposition to a paranoid reading, to respond to the complexity and ambiguity of the selected works

O presente trabalho estuda o tratamento que a obra de Paul Auster e, especificamente, Leviathan, dá à tendência actual que relativiza o poder da linguagem e da ficção para representar o real associando-a a uma visão construcionista do mundo. A análise da construção narrativa de Leviathan salientará a importância da multiplicação de versões na sua estruturação, a qual será ligada ao inevitável processo de ficcionalização da realidade e do homem inerente à condição humana, retratado e problematizado na obra. Investigar-se-ão depois as ambiguidades do texto ao nível das instâncias narrativas e das personagens, pondo a descoberto as relações de dependência e influência entre os diferentes discursos presentes e conduzindo à exploração do papel do autor e à aceitação de uma concepção palimpséstica do texto e do homem. Esta investigação será equacionada com a questionação subversiva de Auster dos poderes e limites da linguagem e da ficção na descrição e/ou criação do real.

Cette etude a pour objet de faire le tour des tours et detours qui parcourent la fiction de paul auster en jouant sur la polysemie comme il le fait lui-meme : le tour (l'entour) la tour, mais aussi jouer un tour : par le detour detournement, donner un tour (d'ecrou), boucler, donc (re)tourner au point de depart et mettre en doute tout ce qui predece. Les deux figures-cles de la tour de babel et du labyrinthe assoient l'ecriture sur la confusion et l'inscrivent dans une impossible logique circulaire de (non)-retour. A la fois point de repere et origine de la dispersion, la tour occupe une position centrale et ambivalente, de meme que le quadrillage qui surcloture l'espace, en faisant tantot une prison tantot un lieu de renaissance et de redemption (la chambre). Toute stabilite lui etant refusee, le repere se construit et se deconstruit tour a tour sous differentes formes : gratte-ciels, mur-ubuesque, statue de la liberte, lune. De meme, la quete du langage pre-babelien, vecue comme essentielle, s'avere rapidement impossible. Le texte est constamment entraine hors de ses rails : detours palimpsestueux, labyrinthes, devoiements ou deviations voire perversions du temps et de l'espace, detours par le miroir et la mise en abyme destabilisent l'ecriture, l'entrainent en terrain mouvant. Le schema narratif traditionnel est sans cesse remis en question, greve par le doute et les doubles tropismes qui le condamnent a une indepassable ambiguite et en verrouillent la sortie. Oscillations, glissements, absences, flou auctorial, secrets et mensonges creent un vertige paradoxal qui frustre le lecteur. Effacement des traces et entropie semblent entrainer le recit vers une fin inexorable qui pourtant n'arrive jamais. La voix voie du texte s'egare quelque part entre l'excipit et le retour a l'incipit<br>This study aims at exploring the different tours and detours that suffuse paul auster's fiction, hinging on the polysemy of the french word "tours" : towers, surrounding walls, tricks, twists. Detours or diversions lead to a final turn of the screw, looping the loop, forcing the text back to its beginning and questioning what has just been asserted. Both key figures - the tower of babel and the labyrinth - build the text on images of confusion and urge it to an impossible logic of (no)-return. The tower, both landmark and origin of disorder, holds a central and ambiguous position, and so does the grid-pattern that fences space in, turning it now into a prison, then into a place of redemption and rebirth (the room). Since they are denied stability, the landmarks that appear successively as new york skyscrapers, a grotesque wall, the statue of liberty, or the moon are alternately being built and unbuilt. Likewise, the quest for pre-babelian language, which is felt as essential, turns out to be impossible. The text constantly winds about, as palimpsestuous detours, labyrinths, diversions, or even perversions of time and space and mirror images drag it out of its tracks, lead it astray, destabilize it. The traditional narrative is repeatedly questioned, weighed down with doubts and double tropisms that condemn it to an impassable ambiguity keep it locked inside itself. Fluctuations, shifts in meaning, absence of the author, secrets and lies all build up to paradoxes that make the reader feelgiddy and deprive him of all certainties. Entropy and the constant obliteration of tracks seem to drag the text towards an inflexible conclusion which never comes: the voice of the text gets lost somewhere between the end and the new beginning

O presente trabalho estuda o tratamento que a obra de Paul Auster e, especificamente, Leviathan, dá à tendência actual que relativiza o poder da linguagem e da ficção para representar o real associando-a a uma visão construcionista do mundo. A análise da construção narrativa de Leviathan salientará a importância da multiplicação de versões na sua estruturação, a qual será ligada ao inevitável processo de ficcionalização da realidade e do homem inerente à condição humana, retratado e problematizado na obra. Investigar-se-ão depois as ambiguidades do texto ao nível das instâncias narrativas e das personagens, pondo a descoberto as relações de dependência e influência entre os diferentes discursos presentes e conduzindo à exploração do papel do autor e à aceitação de uma concepção palimpséstica do texto e do homem. Esta investigação será equacionada com a questionação subversiva de Auster dos poderes e limites da linguagem e da ficção na descrição e/ou criação do real.