Urban Crisis Writing in Paul Auster's Novels

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10.2991/icelaic-17.2017.153How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Paul Auster; novels; urban crisis writing

Abstract

In Paul Auster's Novels, the writer pays special attention to the urban crisis writing: spiritual and ethical crisis, the racial prejudice and terrorist violence. In various crises in the city, compared to the mild spiritual and ethical crisis, the racial prejudice is more radical, even violent, while the crisis reaches the peak in terrorism. Auster's consciousness of the urban crisis is unprecedented, and the urban crisis writing occupies a prominent position in the literary imagination, which becomes the central theme and the starting point of his thinking. Auster's writing on different crises expresses his critical thinking on the city of the past and present as well as his concern on the city in the future.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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