COUNTRIES OF LAST THINGS. LOCATION AND DISLOCATION IN MODERN DYSTOPIAS

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作者：

Stefan, Olga ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Babes Bolyai Univ, Fac Letters, Comparat Literature, Cluj Napoca, Romania

来源：

STUDIA UNIVERSITATIS BABES-BOLYAI PHILOLOGIA | 2012年 / 57卷 / 04期

关键词：

Paul Auster; New York; urbanism; dystopia; devastation; nostalgia; subjectivity;

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中图分类号：

I [文学];

学科分类号：

05 ;

摘要：

The present paper aims to discuss dystopia as narrative of personal dislocation. When the space one assumes as "home" is emptied of those very attributes that built its significance as such, it is, instead, invested with the potential of becoming a "bad place", thus, a dystopian one. I follow two early approaches to modern dystopia, and Paul Auster's 1987 atypical novel, In the Country of Last Things, which I intend to read in terms of creating a dystopian space and describing the devastating potentialities seeded in the urban environments of the present world.

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页码：119 / 129

页数：11