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"What it was all about I had not the slightest idea": Postmodern anti-detection in the trilogies of Paul Auster and Samuel Beckett (France, Ireland).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	"What it was all about I had not the slightest idea": Postmodern anti-detection in the trilogies of Paul Auster and Samuel Beckett (France, Ireland)./
Author:	Simonsen, Bettina Frank.
Description:	107 p.
Notes:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 42-03, page: 0762.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International42-03.
Subject:	Literature, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=MQ85240
ISBN:	0612852407

"What it was all about I had not the slightest idea": Postmodern anti-detection in the trilogies of Paul Auster and Samuel Beckett (France, Ireland).
Simonsen, Bettina Frank.

"What it was all about I had not the slightest idea": Postmodern anti-detection in the trilogies of Paul Auster and Samuel Beckett (France, Ireland). - 107 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 42-03, page: 0762.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Victoria (Canada), 2003.

That a postmodern writer such as Paul Auster in his New York Trilogy employs elements from the traditional detective narrative in creating what has been termed anti-detective stories is widely acknowledged, but in doing so, he is close to the narratological experiments of another writer who is rarely included in an anti-detection context, Samuel Beckett. This thesis focuses on two chronologically and stylistically disparate trilogies: Auster's New York Trilogy and Beckett's Molloy, Malone Dies and The Unnamable whose polyphone and notoriously unstable detective/writer protagonists of these two trilogies foreground a parallel between a classical detectivist code and a hermeneutic reading/writing of the world. In their ultimate exposure and rejection of both, they undermine "the detective-like expectations of the positivistic mind," which, according to critic William V. Spanos, is the most immediate task of the postmodern writer. In their play with and parody of elements from the traditional detective story, both writers investigate ontological "culprits" such as language, identity and presence, demonstrating the ultimate collapse of a rationalist worldview.

ISBN: 0612852407Subjects--Topical Terms:

624011
Literature, Modern.

"What it was all about I had not the slightest idea": Postmodern anti-detection in the trilogies of Paul Auster and Samuel Beckett (France, Ireland).
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