Paul Auster's City of Glass, José María Conget's Todas las mujeres and European postmodernism

The article compares two novels, Paul Auster's City of Glass and José María Conget's Todas las mujeres (original title, El Sueño del Juicio Final, = The Dream of the Last Judgment). It isolates a number of specific features characteristic of Postmodernist writing and shows that, notwithsta...

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Published in:	Neophilologus 1998-04, Vol.82 (2), p.169
Main Author:	Aguirre, Manuel
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	1900-1999 American literature Auster, Paul Authors City of Glass Conget, José María Cultural background Cultural differences English Literature Fiction Intertextuality Judgment novel Novels Postmodernism Reflexivity Spanish literature Todas las mujeres Twentieth Century Writing
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Summary:	The article compares two novels, Paul Auster's City of Glass and José María Conget's Todas las mujeres (original title, El Sueño del Juicio Final, = The Dream of the Last Judgment). It isolates a number of specific features characteristic of Postmodernist writing and shows that, notwithstanding differences in culture and background, the same strategies (intertextual reference, self-reflexivity, the use of a Forking-Paths gambit, of popular culture, of the Quest-for-text motif, of the polivalent notion of passage) and goals (reflection on the nature of writing, exposure of our cherished concept of reality, exploration of the fiction-reality interface) are to be found on both sides of the Atlantic.
ISSN:	0028-2677 1572-8668 1572-8668