{"product_id":"paul-austers-writing-machine-t-ryan-byerly-9781501318252","title":"Paul Auster's Writing Machine","description":"Paul Auster is one of the most acclaimed figures in American literature. Known primarily as a novelist, Auster's films and various collaborations are now gaining more recognition. Evija Trofimova offers a radically different approach to the author's wider body of work, unpacking the fascinating web of relationships between his texts and presenting Auster's canon as a rhizomatic facto-fictional network produced by a set of writing tools. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExploring Auster's literal and figurative use of these tools - the \u003ci\u003etypewriter\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003ecigarette\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003edoppelg舅ger\u003c\/i\u003e figure, the \u003ci\u003ecity\u003c\/i\u003e - Evija Trofimova discovers Auster's \"writing machine+?, a device that works both as a means to write and as a construct that manifests the emblematic writer-figure. This is a book about assembling texts and textual networks, the writing machines that produce them, and the ways such machines invest them with meaning. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmbarking on a scholarly quest that takes her from between the lines of Auster's work to between the streets of his beloved New York and finally to the man himself, \u003ci\u003ePaul Auster's Writing Machine\u003c\/i\u003e becomes not just a critical investigation but a critical collaboration, raising important questions about the ultimate meaning of Auster's work, and about the relationship between texts, their authors, their readers and their critics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e T. Ryan Byerly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 150131825X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501318252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/25\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.51d","brand":"T. Ryan Byerly","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44052864205055,"sku":"9781501318252","price":51.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a6d5155c-49e2-4301-81a9-2c5bbb95d05f.jpg?v=1685021141","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/paul-austers-writing-machine-t-ryan-byerly-9781501318252","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}