The themes of waste, disposal, and recycling are at the center of this paper, whose underlying assumption is that Paul Auster’s In the Country of Last Things (1987) can (also) be read as the author’s reflection on 1) writing, composition, and the problematic reciprocal relationships between the artist’s “production” and the capitalistic/industrial market and 2) the inadequacies of cultural and socio-political systems to both contain the unremitting flux of history and manage the inexorable shrinking and fragmentation of space.
Words and/as Waste in Paul Auster's 'In the Country of Last Things'
FARGIONE, Daniela
2012-01-01
Abstract
The themes of waste, disposal, and recycling are at the center of this paper, whose underlying assumption is that Paul Auster’s In the Country of Last Things (1987) can (also) be read as the author’s reflection on 1) writing, composition, and the problematic reciprocal relationships between the artist’s “production” and the capitalistic/industrial market and 2) the inadequacies of cultural and socio-political systems to both contain the unremitting flux of history and manage the inexorable shrinking and fragmentation of space.
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