Table of Contents
Acknowledgements . . . 9 Arkadiusz Misztal
Introduction . . . 11
Antoine Dechêne (Université de Liège, Belgium)
“Anywhere out of this World”:
Cognition, Perversion and Arbitrariness
in Paul Auster’s Metaphysical Detective Stories . . . 19
Petra Eckhard (Graz University of Technology, Austria) Auster’s Aufzeichnungen Paul Auster, Paul Karasik
and David Mazzucchelli’s City of Glass . . . 45
Steven E. Alford (Nova Southeastern University, USA)
Mirrors of Madness: Paul Auster’s Th e New York Trilogy . . . 71
Jarosław Hetman
(Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland)
Th eoretically Nostalgic. Paul Auster’s City of Glass . . . 95
Jørgen Veisland (University of Gdańsk, Poland) Th e Invisible Artist and the Recovery
of Time Lost in Paul Auster’s Portrait of an Invisible Man,
Th e Book of Illusions and Sunset Park . . . 117
François Hugonnier (University of Angers, France)
Auster’s Narratives of Traumatic Temporality . . . 135
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David Deacon (University College Dublin, Ireland) Ethical Imagination, Complicity and Trauma
in Auster’s Man in the Dark . . . 159
Ilana Shiloh
(Academic Center of Law and Business in Ramat Gan, Israel) Travels in a Locked Room:
Space and Time In Man in the Dark . . . 177
Paul Jahshan (Notre Dame University, Lebanon) From Eccentricity to Human Longing:
Paul Auster’s Narrative Conundrums . . . 195
Katarzyna Macedulska
(Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland) Repetition with a Diff erence –
Paul Auster’s Personal Narratives . . . 219
Arkadiusz Misztal (University of Gdańsk, Poland)
Time, Body, and Imagination in Paul Auster’s Oracle Night . . . 247
Rosemary Huisman (University of Sydney, Australia) How Do You Write about What Is Not Th ere?
How Do You Record What Is Absent?
Scraping the Temporal Palimpsest in Auster’s Fiction . . . 271
Notes on Contributors . . . 293
