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PAUL AUSTER AND AUGUST BRILL’S SOLITARY ROOMS

THE SPATIALITY OF SOLITUDE

Autori

  • Ru Chen School of Foreign Studies, Guangdong University of Finance & Economics
  • Song Liu School of Foreign Studies, Hunan University of Finance & Economics
  • Jiaxin Lin School of Foreign Studies, Northwestern Polytechnical University
  • Muhammad Khail Kan The Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-3173.2022.v45n4.p183

Parole chiave:

Paul Auster, rooms, spatiality of solitude, intersubjectivity, Man in the Dark.

Abstract

For Paul Auster, a room is in essence “the substance of solitude itself”, a spatially defined solitude. In this respect, the phenomenon has transcended its physical limitations and assumed existential and philosophical significance. In his writings, a room is first and foremost an architectural space that a solitary writer occupies; besides, it is metaphorized as the mind that is the room—an intellectually constructed space; and lastly, it is a place narrated in his stories where his characters meditate and compose, a space that exists in words. This paper conducts studies on both Auster’s life writings and one of his fictions, Man in the Dark, in the hope of presenting the complexity of the three forms of solitary rooms and their mutual inclusion in intersubjective solitude.

Biografia autore

  • Song Liu, School of Foreign Studies, Hunan University of Finance & Economics

    For Paul Auster, a room is in essence “the substance of solitude itself”, a spatially defined solitude. In this respect, the phenomenon has transcended its physical limitations and assumed existential and philosophical significance. In his writings, a room is first and foremost an architectural space that a solitary writer occupies; besides, it is metaphorized as the mind that is the room—an intellectually constructed space; and lastly, it is a place narrated in his stories where his characters meditate and compose, a space that exists in words. This paper conducts studies on both Auster’s life writings and one of his fictions, Man in the Dark, in the hope of presenting the complexity of the three forms of solitary rooms and their mutual inclusion in intersubjective solitude.

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Received: 01/06/2022 Approved: 25/08/2022

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PAUL AUSTER AND AUGUST BRILL’S SOLITARY ROOMS: THE SPATIALITY OF SOLITUDE. (2022). TRANS/FORM/AÇÃO:/Revista/De/Filosofia, 45(4). https://doi.org/10.1590/0101-3173.2022.v45n4.p183