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This paper explores Paul Auster’s unique narrative strategy which emphasizes the significance of contingency and randomness as ultimate principles underlying every aspect of our lives. By using what might be called the “aesthetic of chance” as a narrative propellent, Auster undermines the official ideologies that have propped the establishment in the Euro-America. He is also a commercially successful writer despite the fact that his narrative includes such ponderous epistemological baggages as uncertainty, undecidability, deconstruction, and non-linear narrative, only because he foregrounds these concepts in ways much friendly to the common readers. While tangentially undermining the official cultural ideologies of the advanced capitalist societies, particularly by deconstructing the formulaic genre of the detective story, he thus paradoxically takes advantage of the capitalist system itself. In Auster’s Moon Palace, the protagonist meets his forgotten and presumably dead father and grandfather just before they die in front of him. By parallelling this tragic family story with the national history of America expanding into the West, Auster criticizes its expansionist thrust and the capitalist mode of production. His critique of American expansionism and capitalism, however, remains a half success because his narrative itself has an expansionist thrust much analogous to that of American civilization. In other words, Auster seems to unconsciously ratify the expansionist drive of American civilization by mimicking its logic through his unique aesthetic of chance. Auster’s aesthetic of chance somehow provides a failed homeotherapy to the collective desire of American culture.

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I. 서론
 II. '우연의 시학': 삶과 세계와 우주의 원리?
 III. '반탐정 소설': 포스트모더 미학의 전범
 IV. [월궁]: 미국 문화사 비판
 V. 결론: 우발적 제국?
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저자

• 유정완 [ Jung-wan Yu ]

참고문헌

발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  미국소설 [마크 트웨인 리뷰]

• 간기

  연3회

• pISSN

  1738-5784

• 수록기간

  1991~2020

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 843 DDC 813