Following the theory of Trauma as a critical approach, it is analyzed how Paul Auster＇ s Timbuktu shows up the maladies of the contemporary world with a parody of disease full of excess and somehow mocking at its own...Following the theory of Trauma as a critical approach, it is analyzed how Paul Auster＇ s Timbuktu shows up the maladies of the contemporary world with a parody of disease full of excess and somehow mocking at its own elements. It is a distorted version of infirmity, the way it used to appear in former works of literature. The device is a winkle to the reader to envisage whatever novel or story from a carefully distanced view, very much in the way that Postmodernist authors do but with the realistic use of the form that he regularly employs.展开更多
文摘Following the theory of Trauma as a critical approach, it is analyzed how Paul Auster＇ s Timbuktu shows up the maladies of the contemporary world with a parody of disease full of excess and somehow mocking at its own elements. It is a distorted version of infirmity, the way it used to appear in former works of literature. The device is a winkle to the reader to envisage whatever novel or story from a carefully distanced view, very much in the way that Postmodernist authors do but with the realistic use of the form that he regularly employs.
