Suspendu entre passé et avenir: "Oracle Night" de Paul Auster

In Oracle Night (2003), Paul Auster returns to the structure of the detective novel, which enables him to achieve several purposes: first, by involving the reader in the resolution of the main enigma, he shows the fictional character of any reconstruction of past events; the first embedded story, wh...

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