Even or(r) Odd: The Game of Narration in Paul Auster's &lt;i&gt;Oracle Night&lt;/i&gt;

Simonsen, Rasmus R.

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“…Even or(r) odd. The Game of narration in Paul Auster's Oracle night (Simonsen 2009), duński badacz zastanawia się m.in. nad problemem symetryczności nadawania znaczeń tekstowi, który swą semantyczną (zawsze doraźną) skończoność zyskuje w dopełniających się nawzajem aktach "pisania" i "czytania".…”

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„Prawdziwe zmyślenie” w praktyce badawczej. Między doświadczaniem „bycia w terenie” a doświadczaniem literatury ― podróż z Paulem Austerem

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2016

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My goal is to display multi-level relationships existing between the real world and the fictional world. The keystone of these considerations I made an idiom “true fabrication” that appears in the works of a Polish postwar writer, Marek Hłasko. The text begins with the disclosure of a paradox lying in a field of the semantic phrase “true fabrication”. Using this phrase I highlight the ambivalence which I encountered during my own field investigations, stretched between real presence and the presence mediated by thought and writing. In the subsequent parts of the essay, I combine―in accordance with the rule of the preliminary diagnosis―the level of experiencing “being in the field” with the level of experiencing literature. Throughout this process I am accompanied by Paul Auster―cognate to Marek Hłasko in his “true false” intuitions. Reporting to the Reader my reading of Oracle Night (built on the “true false” concept―this is an equivalent of Hłasko’s “true fabrication” in Austerian nomenclature), I take up the challenge of the “game of narration” (a term coined by Jacques Lacan), which enables extending the interpretation horizon with what does not entirely fit within the “truth” or within the “fiction”, occupying a roomy space “between” them. Apart from Auster, Hłasko and Lacan, for such intellectual-experiential journey I am also taking Virginia Woolf, Paul Ricoeur, Rasmus R. Simonsen and Javier Marías.

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„Prawdziwe zmyślenie” w praktyce badawczej. Między doświadczaniem „bycia w terenie” a doświadczaniem literatury ― podróż z Paulem Austerem

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2016

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On Writer’s Block: The Reflection of Lacanian Post-Structuralist Psychoanalysis in Paul Auster’s Oracle Night

Buday

2019

Prague Journal of English Studies

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This paper deals with the reflection of Lacanian post-structuralist psychoanalysis in Paul Auster’s novel Oracle Night, with respect to the phenomenon of writer’s block. The paper argues that Auster’s novel is remarkably synchronized with the theoretical perspectives proposed by the noted psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan, as the root of his protagonist’s inability to write is linked to the medium of written discourse, and the obstacles which the protagonist of his story faces are thus put within the confines of the protagonist’s psyche. Writer’s block is thus being examined with respect to the Lacanian concept known as the chain of signification, as it is much more noticeable in writers because their primary conduit for describing the exterior and interior world is discourse in its written form. Auster exceptionally mirrors Lacan’s view of a writer’s psyche and vividly explores the foundation of the inability to write with respect to the symbolic realm of human experience.

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Even or(r) Odd: The Game of Narration in Paul Auster's <i>Oracle Night</i>

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„Prawdziwe zmyślenie” w praktyce badawczej. Między doświadczaniem „bycia w terenie” a doświadczaniem literatury ― podróż z Paulem Austerem

„Prawdziwe zmyślenie” w praktyce badawczej. Między doświadczaniem „bycia w terenie” a doświadczaniem literatury ― podróż z Paulem Austerem

On Writer’s Block: The Reflection of Lacanian Post-Structuralist Psychoanalysis in Paul Auster’s Oracle Night

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