Graduate School Review Competition

The Austerian Master Code - Paul Auster: Travels in the Scriptorium

Author

• • Eli Sorensen None Email Eli Sorensen. (compose email, opens in email app.)
  • UCL

Abstract

Although one of the big motifs in Paul Auster’s oeuvre is the nature of chance, there is a distinct familiarity, even to some extent predictability, about the tone, phrases, choice of settings, techniques, narrative solutions, and characters in all of his novels – a style unmistakably ‘Austerian’, like the unchangeable pattern of a story that is retold over and over again in an infinite number of variants.

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How to Cite: Sorensen, E. (2008) “The Austerian Master Code - Paul Auster: Travels in the Scriptorium”, Opticon1826. 4(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.5334/opt.040822