RT book part
T1 Reconstructing the (masculine) self from old age: Memories of the aching male body in Paul Auster's Winter Journal
A1 Acosta Bustamante, Leonor
A2 Filología Francesa e Inglesa
K1 masculinity
K1 paul auster
K1 aging
K1 winter journal
AB Written when Auster was in his sixties, Winter Journal (2012) is loyal to his postmodern view of the self as a constructed artifact mediated by the body, and the narrative flows through convolutions of remembrances, anecdotes, homes, and houses, as well as transcendental images of his body moving along his lifetime. This chapter studies how the process of narration is organized by means of levels of discourses about his body and his will of embracing an alternative masculinity, which becomes the cohesive line of the book. The narrative structure, far from the conventional form of autobiographical writing, suggests a way of understanding the self as mediated by a body in constant change. Such a change results from the process of getting old, but also from assimilating illness and injuries as part of the process
SN 978-3-030-71595-3
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/38184
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/38184
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 04-nov-2026