Paul Auster and the Influence of Maurice Blanchot by Arce María Laura

Author:Arce, María Laura
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc.
Published: 2016-04-06T16:00:00+00:00

This is a moment of revelation in Blue’s new life. He is “half alive,” he is already a ghost. This is the real case: to sit a man in a room in solitude, isolate him from his life, and to transform him into a writer who will disappear in the void of his words. The words he has put together on the white sheets of paper in his notebook become fiction, and that is why he lives through the lives of others; he has found a new world in Black. Auster transforms Blue’s experience into a metafictional action in the sense that the narrator states, “this book offers him nothing” (the book is the novel Ghosts) and he does not want to be part of it anymore. Blue is near to death–the one that emerges from writing. Again, Blanchot’s words explain this passage owing to the fact that Blue wants to “leave the chamber,” as he wants to write the final chapter with those words that will live forever in silence (Blanchot, Space 113). It is Blue’s time to transgress Black’s space, to turn his gaze to him and die.

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