Postmodern Narrative Strategies in Paul Auster's Novels Man in the Darkand Invisible
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...…actual historical events or figures or simulate new ones, what is based on the fact that both historians and novelists use the same linguistic and rhetorical structures to present their ―realities‖, so that the past is always constructed ideologically and discursively (LeńiĤ 2008: 420)....
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...Postmodernists do not possess ―modernistic nostalgia for an earlier age where the belief in some eternal values of life was still possible‖ (LeńiĤ 2008: 416) but are aware of all the changes that happened after World War II and support the progress in technology and communications, being aware of…...
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...In such way, metafiction occurs, as one of the main phenomena in postmodern literature, stating that ―the job of a writer is not to present the world anymore, but to make it out of words‖ (LeńiĤ 2008: 422)....
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...A postmodern novelist is aware that there are various systems of representing the reality, and is ready to check the usability of every of them and to change the narrative discourse within one text‖ (LeńiĤ 2008: 422)....
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