• K.Abinaya
• Dr.P.Karthi

Auster’s Oracle Night is a complex and absorbing novel. Like his earlier novels, Oracle Night is replete with author’s omnipresent themes of existential quest for meaning, an unexpected getaway from mundane life, a significant position of chance and random events, fluidity of identities, storytelling and the act of writing. Besides, Oracle Night includes a very distinct narrative technique, a metafictional narrative engaging in story-within a-story, use of paratext and an undeniable intertextual homage to Auster’s favourite writers which makes it a multi-layered and post-modern novel. In the midst of chaos and conflicts of postmodern American life, Auster’s characters undertake an existential plunge into chasm of nothingness and fragmentariness. He employs the postmodern devices to make the question of identity and existence comprehensively and coherently readable. The recurrent employment of characters as writer in Auster’s novels finds a more elaborate treatment in Oracle Night. Here, writing becomes a momentous affair in comprehending the intriguing question of existence. It gains potential with the act of storytelling that involves leading many lives at once cumulatively progressing towards reworking of the self. In Oracle Night, recovery after the threat of death grants a renewed sense of the self, more at peace with their ruptured identity.

replete, omnipresent, metafictional, intriguing

"Writing One's self : Oracle Night by Paul Auster ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 7, page no.g44-g47, July-2023, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2307607.pdf

"Writing One's self : Oracle Night by Paul Auster ", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.10, Issue 7, page no. ppg44-g47, July-2023, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2307607.pdf