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Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Arkadiusz Misztal
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Antoine Dechêne (Université de Liège, Belgium)
“Anywhere out of this World”:
Cognition, Perversion and Arbitrariness
in Paul Auster’s Metaphysical Detective Stories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Petra Eckhard (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Auster’s Aufzeichnungen Paul Auster, Paul Karasik
and David Mazzucchelli’s City of Glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Steven E. Alford (Nova Southeastern University, USA)
Mirrors of Madness: Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy . . . . . . . . . . 71
Jarosław Hetman
(Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland)
Theoretically Nostalgic. Paul Auster’s City of Glass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95
Jørgen Veisland (University of Gdańsk, Poland)
The Invisible Artist and the Recovery
of Time Lost in Paul Auster’s Portrait of an Invisible Man,
The Book of Illusions and Sunset Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
François Hugonnier (University of Angers, France)
Auster’s Narratives of Traumatic Temporality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
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David Deacon (University College Dublin, Ireland)
Ethical Imagination, Complicity and Trauma
in Auster’s Man in the Dark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Ilana Shiloh
(Academic Center of Law and Business in Ramat Gan, Israel)
Travels in a Locked Room:
Space and Time In Man in the Dark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177
Paul Jahshan (Notre Dame University, Lebanon)
From Eccentricity to Human Longing:
Paul Auster’s Narrative Conundrums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Katarzyna Macedulska
(Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland)
Repetition with a Difference –
Paul Auster’s Personal Narratives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
Arkadiusz Misztal (University of Gdańsk, Poland)
Time, Body, and Imagination in Paul Auster’s Oracle Night . . . . . . . . 247
Rosemary Huisman (University of Sydney, Australia)
How Do You Write about What Is Not There?
How Do You Record What Is Absent?
Scraping the Temporal Palimpsest in Auster’s Fiction . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Notes on Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293