TY - JOUR
T1 - Author, father, president
T2 - Paul Auster's figures of invisibility
AU - Benziman, Galia
PY - 2013/1/1
Y1 - 2013/1/1
N2 - Since the mid-2000s, Paul Auster's fiction has increasingly come to address topical issues. Man in the Dark (2008) is a post-9/11 work, whose plot evolves around the attack on the World Trade Center and George W. Bush's controversial leadership. Yet, in this work, Auster also returns to several key themes that have preoccupied him since The Invention of Solitude (1982). When Man in the Dark's symbolic and veiled return to these themes is examined, the novel's political critique can be more richly understood within the context of the topoi of the father-son relationship and the construction/deconstruction of the self through writing.
AB - Since the mid-2000s, Paul Auster's fiction has increasingly come to address topical issues. Man in the Dark (2008) is a post-9/11 work, whose plot evolves around the attack on the World Trade Center and George W. Bush's controversial leadership. Yet, in this work, Auster also returns to several key themes that have preoccupied him since The Invention of Solitude (1982). When Man in the Dark's symbolic and veiled return to these themes is examined, the novel's political critique can be more richly understood within the context of the topoi of the father-son relationship and the construction/deconstruction of the self through writing.
KW - 9/11 in literature
KW - Authorship
KW - Father figures
KW - Man in the dark
KW - Patricide in literature
KW - Paul Auster
KW - The invention of solitude
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84889846241&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.3138/cras.2013.021
DO - 10.3138/cras.2013.021
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AN - SCOPUS:84889846241
SN - 0007-7720
VL - 43
SP - 462
EP - 479
JO - Canadian Review of American Studies
JF - Canadian Review of American Studies
IS - 3
ER -