Tag: Dualism
Adieu Descartes
by doconnor on Nov.08, 2009, under Literature
“Our arms are canes of flesh with which the soul reaches and touches.”
Joseph Joubert (The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert p 30)
“As spiders make webs and beavers build dams, so we tell stories”
David Lodge (Consciousness and the Novel p 15)
Paul Auster considers himself first and foremost to be a storyteller. He is concerned with stories: how they are made and what they are made of; the part they play in our lives; and the manner in which they inform, and even form, our sense of selves.
There is in his work a complex interaction between memory and imagination, experience and desire. Language is, of course the medium through which they come together.
