ASPECT OF STORY IN NARRATIVE OF PAUL AUSTER'S NOVELS

The paper presents an overview of the aspect of story in the narrative of novels written by Paul Auster, a contemporary American writer. Starting from the theoretical basis set by Shlomith RimmonKenan in her study Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics, where narrative fiction is observed from three aspects (story, text and characters), the paper will try to investigate the first of them (story) in Auster's novels written in the period from 1985 to 2009. That will be done through two parameters, also set by RimmonKenan: events and characters, which will be discussed, analysed and further subdivided at the level of the entire mentioned corpus of novels. Some general conclusions will be made at the end of the paper. Keywords: Paul Auster, narrative, story, novel, events, characters