Paul Auster and Postmodern Quest

Paul Auster published his first prose work, the autobiographical The Invention of Solitude , in 1982; since then his fiction has gained ever growing popular and critical acclaim. This book is a stimulating pioneering study of eight works that make up the Auster canon: The Invention of Solitude , the three novellas that comprise The New York Trilogy , and the novels In the Country of Last Things, Moon Palace, The Music of Chance , and Leviathan . Focusing on the quest – which she sees as the mast