Rubbish City and the Utopia of the Residual: In the Country of Last Things by Paul Auster

In his novel In the Country of Last Things, Paul Auster paints the picture of a rubbish city situated on the margins of the world of production. It is the wretched dwelling of outcasts, where garbage is the unsuspected and virtual repository of the fragments of collective desire. Yet, from the margi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gianluca Cuozzo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at the University of Verona 2017-12-01
Series:Iperstoria
Online Access:https://iperstoria.it/article/view/519