Paul Auster’s postmodern characters: a relativistic/referential dichotomy

Paul Auster es uno de los autores posmodernos más estudiados y sus novelas han sido ampliamente utilizadas como ejemplos paradigmáticos de la ficción de este movimiento. A la luz del reciente debate teórico sobre el paso del posmodernismo, parece fundamental explorar la forma en que Auster concibe la naturaleza de este paradigma, los problemas que plantea y sus posibles soluciones. El objetivo de este artículo es analizar dos tipos recurrentes de personajes del universo austeriano que representan dos grandes fuentes de influencia en el novelista: la filosofía de Ludwig Wittgenstein y las ideas del transcendentalismo estadounidense.

Cleft Construction Is a Salient Feature in the ‘City of Glass’ a Novel by Paul Auster: A Stylistic Study

The present study is an attempt to investigate using the grammatical devices of cleft construction as a stylistic feature in the ‘city of Glass’ a post-modernist novel by Paul Auster. The purpose behind using cleft sentence is to highlight the element which is a part of the sentence and it is important for the author’s perspective. The construction of cleft sentence composes of a matrix clause headed by copula and relative or relative-like clause. Both (matrix and relative) reflect a simple logical proposal, That could’ve been conveyed in the consisting of a specific attribute without changing the truth circumstances. So this structure allows the writer focusing on the important element that he /she believes to reveal the creative use of language.