Paul auster 4321 reviews5/22/2023 ![]() ![]() With the help of, for example, de Certeau’s city-texturology, the article shows how the spatial practices of walking and writing (in) the city creates Ferguson’s embodied lifelines. Lines do not merely connect immobile points, such as locations on a map, but rather, are movements along which life is made and revealed. The starting point is the anthropologist Tim Ingold’s notion that all life is realized as a series of entangling lines, a meshwork of random occurrences, which move to and fro in various directions rather than as a straight line from birth to death. This article explores how the four interweaving storylines of the contemporary US author Paul Auster’s novel, 4 3 2 1 (2017), create its protagonist Archie Ferguson through his embodied spatial experience of New York City. ![]()
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