미국 대도시 뉴욕에서 일상의 재발견 : 폴 오스터의 『뉴욕 3부작』 중 『유령들』

Abstract

This paper tries to read an aspect of everyday life in a metropolis by examining Paul Auster’s Ghosts, the second part of The New York Trilogy. Blue, one of the main characters of Ghosts lives in new york city where it is radiant. His life, however, is not rich but simple. Blue’s everyday life in the city repeats itself like a machine, also he does not think of the world inside himself. One day White, another main character suggests Blue to follow a man named Black. By accepting White’s proposal Blue has a chance to listen to his own inner rhythm in a special space. This space is small and simple. However, it has the power to make Blue think and hear his inner and outer world. Henri Lefebvre refers to listening, connecting, and integrating rhythms as a whole based on his own rhythm in Rhythmanalysis. When Blue begins listening to rhythms as Lefbvre said, he aims for a life of freedom. Tracing Blue’s track towards freedom, this paper considers everyday life in a metropolis with the theories of Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin, Ben Highmore, Henri Lefebvre, and Gilles Deleuze.