Abstract

Auster’s autobiographical text, The Invention of Solitude (1982), consists of two parts, “Portrait of an Invisible Man” and “The Book of Memory,” on the latter of which I shall focus. It is Auster’s first prose text and, in many respects, forms the basis of his subsequent writings to the point of informing his entire oeuvre. Auster’s overall concerns (such as poverty, solitude, chance, locked rooms, or the relationship of fathers and sons) are thus assembled in The Invention of Solitude in a condensed form (cf. Siegumfeldt 68).

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