The Invention of Illusions: International Perspectives on Paul Auster

The Invention of Illusions: International Perspectives on Paul Auster

A collection of essays on Paul Auster's novels and films. Following the example of "Beyond the Red Notebook" (1995), it provides an insightful examination of Auster's twenty-first-century output and draw connections between the author's early and later production.

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Stefania Ciocia is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Literatures in English at Canterbury Christ Church University (UK). Her main research interests lie broadly in the areas of postmodernism and postcolonialism. She has published on, amongst others, Sarah Waters, Derek Walcott, Tim O'Brien and, more recently, crossover fiction. Jesus A. Gonzalez is Professor of English at the University of Cantabria (Spain). He has published La narrativa popular de Dashiell Hammett: Pulps, Cine y Comics (Valencia University Press, 2002) as well as a number of articles on the detective novel and the West in American Literature.