Invisible or "The Fine Art of Scribbling": Paul Auster's Metafiction in Postmodern Narrative Discourse
The intention of this article is to study Paul Auster’s novel Invisible (2009) as an exercise in metafiction and a poststructuralist game in which Auster introduces different fictional layers to make the figure of the author disappear. Auster presents the story of Adam Walker and Rudolph Born, two c...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid |
| Repositorio: | Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/713418 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10486/713418 https://dx.doi.org/10.4312/elope.20.2.33-48 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Paul Auster Metafiction Narrative discourse Literary theory Literatura |
| Sumario: | The intention of this article is to study Paul Auster’s novel Invisible (2009) as an exercise in metafiction and a poststructuralist game in which Auster introduces different fictional layers to make the figure of the author disappear. Auster presents the story of Adam Walker and Rudolph Born, two characters who become antagonists but whose lives depend on each other. By a series of narrations, the novel tells how the story of these two characters extends in time, challenging literary genres and multiplying different narrative layers |
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