This book is an intertextual study of Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy focusing on the influence of the main authors of the American Renaissance and the modern European tradition, represented by Samuel Beckett and Maurice Blanchot.
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Introduction
Paul Auster's Metafiction and Intertextuality in ContextThe Writer and the Typist: City of Glass and "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman MelvilleThe Writer and his Doubles: Ghosts and "William Wilson" by Edgar Allan PoeThe Invisible Writer: The Locked Room and Fanshawe by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Trilogy of Absence: Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy and Samuel Beckett's Molloy, Malone Dies and The UnnamableTranslating Influence: The New York Trilogy as a Fictionalization of Maurice Blanchot's The Space of LiteratureAfterword
