Paul Austers Brooklyn: between fiction and reality
Date de publication :
06/08/2007
Langue :
Anglais
Format :
.doc
Nombre de pages :
9 pages
Sommaire :
Sommaire
- Real Brooklyn in The Brooklyn Follies or how Auster draws a map of Brooklyn
- Characteristics of the borough
- The Brooklynites
- History through the story: the gentrification process in Park Slope
- Fictive Brooklyn in the novel
- Symbolism
- The place of paradox
- Paul Auster's Brooklyn
- Brooklyn's history
- His neighborhood
- Brooklyn as a literary character
Résumé :
brooklyn: a city within great New York City, a place associated with top-notch artists such as Walt Whitman, Hart Crane or quite recently Woody Allen; and one of New York boroughs where one cannot ignore the ongoing process of multiculturalism. But why did I choose brooklyn as the topic of my research? Besides the classes about New York, I wish to discover another aspect of New York city through literature, and I hit my goal when I thought about paul auster. I think it is interesting to study New York through the work of a real New Yorker writer and to consider how the man appropriates his own city, not only through his life but also through his work. I never read paul auster's novels before, so I could work without any preconceived ideas which might influence my reading or my perception. To face with the expanse of my topic, I had to confine my research to one novel to improve the accuracy of my work: I chose THE brooklyn FOLLIES, his latest novel which came out in 2005. Therefore I focused on the borough of brooklyn, ant I tried to study the many facets of the place and to reproduce them faithfully. And so, there are two brooklyn which are superimposed : the real brooklyn - with its restaurants, its business... the day to day life in brooklyn for paul auster and his characters; and another brooklyn, a literary and fictive one. The two brooklyn end up merging into one another in the novel, hence emerges a new original idea of brooklyn.
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