Paul Auster's Writing Machine

Paul Auster is one of the most acclaimed figures in American literature. Known primarily as a novelist Auster's films and various collaborations are now gaining more recognition. Evija Trofimova offers a radically different approach to the author's wider body of work unpacking the fascinating web of relationships between his texts and presenting Auster's canon as a rhizomatic facto-fictional network produced by a set of writing tools. <br/><br/>Exploring Auster's literal and figurative use of these tools - the <i>typewriter</i> the <i>cigarette</i> the <i>doppelgänger</i> figure the <i>city</i> - Evija Trofimova discovers Auster's writing machine+? a device that works both as a means to write and as a construct that manifests the emblematic writer-figure. This is a book about assembling texts and textual networks the writing machines that produce them and the ways such machines invest them with meaning. <br/><br/>Embarking on a scholarly quest that takes her from between the lines of Auster's work to between the streets of his beloved New York and finally to the man himself <i>Paul Auster's Writing Machine</i> becomes not just a critical investigation but a critical collaboration raising important questions about the ultimate meaning of Auster's work and about the relationship between texts their authors their readers and their critics.