Paul Auster’s Moon Palace As A Postmodern Historiographical Meta-Fictional Narrative

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R. Annamalai, Dr. A. Selvaraj

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Paul Auster has given a self-reflective and equally historical dimension to his writing through performance of historiographical meta fiction. The term ‘postmodern’ is used to describe the philosophy, art, literature, music, architecture etc. Historiographical meta-fiction attempts to position within the context of historical debate while retaining its fiction-like autonomy. The postmodern novels simultaneously use, exploits, build, subvert, claim, and reject the conventions of both fiction and historiography. Historiographical meta-fiction’s precise and general recollections of the various styles of history writing and their contents help to familiarise the unfamiliar through a very familiar narrative, but its meta-fictional self- reflexivity makes any such familiarisation problematic. The intention of this paper is to analyse Postmodern Historiographical Meta-fictional narrative in Paul Auster’s Moon Palace.

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