Notes on/in Paul Auster's “Oracle Night”

Authors

  • Pia Masiero Marcolin

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13135/1592-4467/8828

Keywords:

postmodern referentiality, textual self-sufficiency, fictional code, Paul Auster

Abstract

Oracle Night, Paul Auster's twelfth novel, is analysed focusing on the author's peculiar paraftextual choices. Drawing on Gerard Genette's seminal grammar of the paratext, Seuils, Auster's usage of the title, the dedication and especially of footnotes is here explored as a means to understand some aspects of postmodern referentiality and textual self-sufficiency, such as the relationship between the code of the real and the code of the fictional and the pact with the reader.

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Published

2003-09-01

Issue

Vol. 14 (2003): Poetry and History

Section

Notes and Debates

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