Postmodern Narrative Strategies in Paul Auster's Novels Man in the Dark and Invisible

Postmodern Narrative Strategies in Paul Auster's Novels Man in the Dark and Invisible

Kovačević, Darko

In many of his novels Paul Auster uses characteristic postmodern narrative strategies in order to tell their stories, introduce the characters and depict the atmosphere. The two novels that are the central topic of this paper, "Man in the Dark" and "Invisible", belong to the category of his recent novels, and, observed both as separate units and as a whole, present an excellent example for the identification and analysis of such strategies. After a brief general introduction about postmodern narrative strategies in literature, the strategies used in the named novels will be identified and analyzed, with respect to various narrative theories that exist in present time, and that will bring to some general conclusions at the final part of the paper.

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2011-05

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