The illusionist of words: Paul Auster and his creative universe
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https://doi.org/10.3989/arbor.2010.741n1009Keywords:
Actor, Auster, author, bidimensional, Chinese boxes, external references, film, images, internal relations, intertextuality, myse-en-abyme, scripts, silent film, tridimensional, photograph, self-referential, storytellers, visual writing, writersAbstract
Paul Auster is one of the greatest writers of our time. Since 1994, to his work as novelist, poet and essayist he has added scriptwriting and film directing. Both literature and cinema appear closely linked in his creative production, so that one feeds the other and vice versa, by means of themes, common characters as well as self-referential and metafictional allusions. In novels, short stories and films, Auster reveals himself, in essence, as a great storyteller. They are stories that overlap at different narrative levels following the technique of the Chinese boxes. His work is also part of a large net of internal and external references in dialogue with each other, posing and pondering on questions that have to do with identity, writing or the intersections between fiction and reality, which appear recurrently both in its literary as in its filmic form.
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