POST-POSTMODERN SELF-REFLECTION IN PAUL AUSTER’S NOVEL “CITY OF GLASS” Cover Image

ПОСТПОСТМОДЕРНИСТСКАЯ САМОРЕФЛЕКСИЯ В РОМАНЕ ПОЛА ОСТЕРА «СТЕКЛЯННЫЙ ГОРОД»
POST-POSTMODERN SELF-REFLECTION IN PAUL AUSTER’S NOVEL “CITY OF GLASS”

Author(s): Vera Borisovna Shamina
Subject(s): Philosophy, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Fiction, Studies of Literature, Aesthetics, Novel, Existentialism
Published by: Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет
Keywords: author; reader; intertextuality; reflection; parody; postmodernism; post-post-modernism; metatext;

Summary/Abstract: This paper addresses one of the most famous and disputable novels of the leading contemporary American author Paul Auster. Our aim is to reveal various forms of the author’s presence in the novel and to describe the aesthetic results of these multiple embodiments. We demonstrates how, using all major strategies of postmodernism, the author actually parodies it creating a metatext, which enables us to speak of a new stage of the development of postmodern fiction.

  • Issue Year: 156/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 223-232
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Russian