Year: 2022
Type: article
Abstract: In "The Invention of Isolation", "The New York Trilogy", "Man in the Dark", "Winter Journal", and other works, Paul Auster explores the meaning of solitude as "[…] one of the requirements of being human."(ADAMO, 2002, p. 32).Auster is essentially a reclusive author who spends a lot of time alone in a room engaged in intense meditation.Invoking the French phenomenologist Merleau-Ponty, the author makes the case that only complete separation of self and other, subject and object, is necessary for true transcendental solitude.We are in relation to what is other than the self.As long as we are aware of our separation from the other, we cannot assert our solitary position.Since each person's sense of himself largely depends on that perception, isolation in this instance is "intersubjective.
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Author: Jie Tong
Institution: Ningbo University
Language: English
Topic: Spatial and Cultural Studies
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4297206686