Paul Auster’s 4 3 2 1. Past Paradigms: 4 3 2 1 de Paul Auster. Dépasser les paradigmes
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Paul Auster’s 4 3 2 1. Past Paradigms : 4 3 2 1 de Paul Auster. Dépasser les paradigmes. / Siegumfeldt, Inge Birgitte.
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Paul Auster’s 4 3 2 1. Past Paradigms
T2 - 4 3 2 1 de Paul Auster. Dépasser les paradigmes
AU - Siegumfeldt, Inge Birgitte
PY - 2020/4/1
Y1 - 2020/4/1
N2 - There is something strange about a cast of characters that comes in tetrads centering on duplicate yet different protagonists with identical names, and critics who argue that Auster’s mastodon novel, 4 3 2 1, marks a return to realism fail to take into account the inflated tone of the fabular woven into the texture of the narrative. Auster has worked with alternativity before, but 4 3 2 1 takes his penchant for unknowability to a new level. It installs a constitutive element of heterogeneity at the core of the text and sabotages readerly expectations. It would be far-fetched to argue that 4 3 2 1 forges a literary strategy, in which ‘myth’ and ‘the everyday’ converge, that is consonant with a new type of twenty-first century fiction which critics are currently at pains to define.
AB - There is something strange about a cast of characters that comes in tetrads centering on duplicate yet different protagonists with identical names, and critics who argue that Auster’s mastodon novel, 4 3 2 1, marks a return to realism fail to take into account the inflated tone of the fabular woven into the texture of the narrative. Auster has worked with alternativity before, but 4 3 2 1 takes his penchant for unknowability to a new level. It installs a constitutive element of heterogeneity at the core of the text and sabotages readerly expectations. It would be far-fetched to argue that 4 3 2 1 forges a literary strategy, in which ‘myth’ and ‘the everyday’ converge, that is consonant with a new type of twenty-first century fiction which critics are currently at pains to define.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - Paul Auster
KW - 4321
U2 - 10.4000/lisa.11459
DO - 10.4000/lisa.11459
M3 - Journal article
VL - 18
JO - Littératures, Histoire des Idées du Monde Anglophone
JF - Littératures, Histoire des Idées du Monde Anglophone
IS - 50
ER -
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