Njujorška trilogija: Jezik, želja, apokatastazis

Abstract

The paper initially examines the concepts of language, desire and apocatastasis within the postmodern psychoanalytical and philosophical theoretical framework so as to analyze the mechanisms of selfhood constitution in Paul Auster’s novel The New York Trilogy. Henceforth, one of the aims of the paper is to reexamine the influence of metaphorical, that is to say mental, meditative and metaphysical exile on human subject’s identity construction and deconstruction. Particular attention is focused on: motif of isolation in which both subject’s identity and identity of literature are generated, the nature of text and writing/reading process, and the relationship between textual and physical reality.