Auster was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1947, attended Columbia University during the 1960s and graduated with both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in comparative literature. In the 1970s, Auster lived variously in Paris and southern France earning a meager living as a freelance reviewer and translator. . . he became known quickly as a novelist in 1985 when City of Glass—a book rejected by seventeen publishers before being accepted by Sun and Moon Press of Los Angeles— appeared to enthusiastic reviews. This grim and intellectually puzzling mystery belies its surface identity as a “detective novel” and goes on to become a profound meditation on transience and mortality, the inadequacy of language, and ontological isolation . . . Two other
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Fanshaw (Reference to Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel Fanshawe his childhood friend, has produced creative work, and when he disappears the writer publishes his work and replaces him in his family. The title is a reference to a "locked room mystery", a popular form of early detective fiction. (Wikipedia)
"The locked room mystery is a subgenre of detective fiction in which a crime—almost always murder—is committed under apparently impossible circumstances. The crime in question typically involves a crime scene that no intruder could have entered or left, e.g., a locked room. Following other conventions of classic detective fiction, the reader is normally presented with the puzzle and all of the clues, and is encouraged to solve the mystery before the solution is revealed in a dramatic climax." …show more content…
3 Data collection procedures
This research lists the databases created by research library. These databases include the use of the A Postmodern Narrative Approach to index the content by subject.
4 Results and Discussion
After World War II, human attention towards living spaces is becoming more obvious than ever. Paying attention to living space is one of the postmodernism's achievements. Believing in living space in creating literary work has gained great importance in postmodernism period.
"CHINESE-BOX WORLDS transformation suggests something like a functional equivalence between strategies of self-erasure or self-contradiction and strategies involving recursive structures—… types of strategy have the effect of interrupting and complicating the ontological “horizon” of the fiction, multiplying its worlds, and laying bare the process of world-construction" (McHale). It is one of the commonly used techniques in metafictions for creating the result of uncertainty. "A recursive structure results when you perform the same operation over and over again, each time operating on the product of the previous operation"
Fanshaw (Reference to Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel Fanshawe his childhood friend, has produced creative work, and when he disappears the writer publishes his work and replaces him in his family. The title is a reference to a "locked room mystery", a popular form of early detective fiction. (Wikipedia)
"The locked room mystery is a subgenre of detective fiction in which a crime—almost always murder—is committed under apparently impossible circumstances. The crime in question typically involves a crime scene that no intruder could have entered or left, e.g., a locked room. Following other conventions of classic detective fiction, the reader is normally presented with the puzzle and all of the clues, and is encouraged to solve the mystery before the solution is revealed in a dramatic climax." …show more content…
3 Data collection procedures
This research lists the databases created by research library. These databases include the use of the A Postmodern Narrative Approach to index the content by subject.
4 Results and Discussion
After World War II, human attention towards living spaces is becoming more obvious than ever. Paying attention to living space is one of the postmodernism's achievements. Believing in living space in creating literary work has gained great importance in postmodernism period.
"CHINESE-BOX WORLDS transformation suggests something like a functional equivalence between strategies of self-erasure or self-contradiction and strategies involving recursive structures—… types of strategy have the effect of interrupting and complicating the ontological “horizon” of the fiction, multiplying its worlds, and laying bare the process of world-construction" (McHale). It is one of the commonly used techniques in metafictions for creating the result of uncertainty. "A recursive structure results when you perform the same operation over and over again, each time operating on the product of the previous operation"