Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction: Paul Auster and the Postmodern American Novel 1
4. Paul Auster, or The Heir Intestate 27
5. Paul Austers Pseudonymous World 34
6. In the Realm of the Naked Eye: The Poetry of Paul Auster 44
7. 'The Hunger Must Be Preserved at All Cost": A Reading of The Invention of Solitude 60
8. The Detective and the Author: City of Glass 71
9. Austers Sublime Closure: The Locked Room 88
10. "Looking for Signs in the Air": Urban Space and the Postmodern in In the Country of Last Things 107
11. Inside Moon Palace 129
12. The Music of Chance: Aleatorical ,(Dis)harmonies Within "The City of the World" 143
13. Leviathan: Post Hoc Harmonies 162
14. A Look Back from the Horizon 171
15. Being Paul Austers Ghost 183
16. Paul Auster: A Selected Bibliography 189
17. Contributors 199
18. Index 201