This article focuses on the choice of the second-person pronoun in Paul Auster’s autobiographical work, Report from the Interior (2013). Unusual in the genre, this article demonstrates that it serves several functions within the economy of the narration but also across it (in its reaching out to the reader). Sliding between different potential referents as is the case in traditional “you novels,” the pronoun is always on the verge on merging into the first or third person pronoun, while assuming its addressivity at all times. Dislodging the ‘I’ from its egocentric position, it also enables different intersubjective frames to co-exist, in keeping with Auster’s conception of life-writing as inevitably fragmented and non-linear. As argued, the...
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This article analyzes Auster’s employment of the second person in his twenty-first-century prose tex...
Report from the Interior, Auster’s 2013 memoir opens with the earliest memories of young Paul up to ...
International audienceThe idea behind this article comes from an observation: the second-person pron...
International audienceReport from the Interior, Auster’s 2013 memoir opens with the earliest memorie...
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Between autobiography and fiction, the term "autofiction", invented by Serge Doubrovsky, is a "genre...
Entre autobiographie et fiction, le terme « autofiction », inventé par Serge Doubrovsky, est un « ge...
International audienceThis article focuses on the communication situation represented in reported in...
It is concentrated in the examination of the enunciative engendering used by the American writer Pau...
Report from the Interior de Paul Auster est un récit autobiographique qui entreprend de faire état d...
This essay analyzes the way Report from the Interior, Auster’s fifth autobiographical text, fits in ...
In Report from the Interior by Paul Auster the personal pronoun you is used in an unconventional man...
Autobiographical writing has been an integral part of literary research for decades. Which innovatio...
This article analyzes Auster’s employment of the second person in his twenty-first-century prose tex...
Report from the Interior, Auster’s 2013 memoir opens with the earliest memories of young Paul up to ...
International audienceThe idea behind this article comes from an observation: the second-person pron...
International audienceReport from the Interior, Auster’s 2013 memoir opens with the earliest memorie...
“Second person narratives” may often be experimental, but are hardly new. The forms they take today ...
Ghosts, the second novel in Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy, can be read as a fictionalized theor...
International audienceThe article focuses on the specific use of the second person pronoun in Iain B...
Between autobiography and fiction, the term "autofiction", invented by Serge Doubrovsky, is a "genre...
Entre autobiographie et fiction, le terme « autofiction », inventé par Serge Doubrovsky, est un « ge...
International audienceThis article focuses on the communication situation represented in reported in...
It is concentrated in the examination of the enunciative engendering used by the American writer Pau...