Paul Auster’s Notebook: an Examination of Writing in The Locked Room and Oracle Night

• Main Authors: You-Chun Chen, 陳柚均
• Other Authors: Yun-Pei Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26857553603777656329

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 英文學系碩士班 === 99 === As an experimental writer, Auster d deconstructs well-established rules within conventional genre. Contending with literary tradition, Paul Auster himself adopts a playful approach in writing. In this thesis, in dealing with his self-questioning text, Auster creates a new form in the authorial engagement of play. In the subject matter of his novels, Auster combines his “world” with his “word” in the same concurrent. My thesis is concerned about Auster’s writing and life—the process in which human beings try to get inside the truth of the lives and themselves. Further, I wish to offer a study from the perspective of deconstruction to analyze Auster’s works, including his biography, The Invention of Solitude, and two novels, Oracle Night and The Locked Room.