"Comment on "Paul Auster and August Brill's solitary rooms
The Spatiality of Solitude
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5118893 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jie Tong (0000-0001-8703-5246, Ningbo University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 205-212 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Trans/Form/Ação (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0101-3173 • E-ISSN: 1980-539X |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/0101-3173.2022.v45n4.p205 |
| OpenAlex | W4297206686 |
| SCIELO_PID | S0101-31732022000400205 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
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
Art · Art history · Brill · Literature · Solitude · Theology · Architecture, Design, and Social History · Philosophy · Spatial and Cultural Studies · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |