A postmodern readıng of paul auster:the paradoxıcal characters of paul auster: the quest for metaıdentıty ın Paul Auster's novels

Abstract

Paul Auster uses the fundamental paradox of representative reality and representative illusion to convey a quest for identity through multiple identities of the characters. His novels highlight this quest and its steps and thus question the issue of identity by displaying the responses of the characters to stages. Paul Auster questions the issue of identity by means of his characters’ quest stages such as objectification, coincidence, solitude, and encounters with alter ego which finally ends up with a kind of metaidentity that brings the writer/reader/character trio all together.Paul Auster bütün romanlarında bir metakimlik bulmaya calışmaktadır.Bu aşamalar yalnızlık,kader ve nesneleştirme gibi aşamalardan oluşur.