The Redistribution of the Sensible and the Politics of Aesthetics in Paul Auster’s Moon Palace
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This essay analyzes Paul Auster's Moon Palace based on Jacques Rancière's theory of aesthetics. The novel traces how young and traumatic Fogg transfers his way of perceiving the world from an imaginary and mythological one to an aesthetic and political one. The essay reads Fogg's homeless life in Central Park as an aesthetic suspension of existing order. The suspension prepared him to realize a new aesthetics and its way of perceiving the world, which Rancière calls “the aesthetic regime of art.” Dismantling the existing system of identification and classification, the aesthetic regime of art redistributes the sensible. Literature under the new regime deconstructs rules for representation and proposes a new notion of fictionality and literarity, which incorporates the heterogenous and the contradictory and reconfigures the relationship between the visible and the sayable. Throughout the novel, Fogg is trained to be an artist that could redistribute the sensible and thus give the invisible a locus.
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This essay analyzes Paul Auster's Moon Palace based on Jacques Rancière's theory of aesthetics. The novel traces how young and traumatic Fogg transfers his way of perceiving the world from an imaginary and mythological one to an aesthetic and political one. The essay reads Fogg's homeless life in Central Park as an aesthetic suspension of existing order. The suspension prepared him to realize a new aesthetics and its way of perceiving the world, which Rancière calls “the aesthetic regime of art.” Dismantling the existing system of identification and classification, the aesthetic regime of art redistributes the sensible. Literature under the new regime deconstructs rules for representation and proposes a new notion of fictionality and literarity, which incorporates the heterogenous and the contradictory and reconfigures the relationship between the visible and the sayable. Throughout the novel, Fogg is trained to be an artist that could redistribute the sensible and thus give the invisible a locus.
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