Tag: Paul Auster
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.
