The Paul Auster Research Library Visiting Scholar
In residence 2nd – 26th May 2023.
We are honoured to be able to host one of the most important scholars on Auster’s work, François Hugonnier is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Angers. He is the author of several pieces on Paul Auster’s poetry and fiction, including a monograph entitled Les interdits de la représentation. Paul Auster, Jerome Rothenberg (ed. Otrante, 2022). In collaboration with I. B. Siegumfeldt, he co-edited a collection of essays with and about Paul Auster (New Avenues in Paul Auster’s Twentieth-Century Work, LISA e-journal, 2020). He has also published a book-length study of Don DeLillo’s 9/11 novel Falling Man (Paris-Nanterre U P, 2016).
While visiting The Paulk Auster Research Library, Hugonnier will be working on his project entitled,
The cover art, translations and adaptations of Paul Auster’s writing
The Paul Auster Research Library in Copenhagen offers a wide range of manuscripts that make up a kaleidoscope of images and languages. The cover art, translations and adaptations of his books are a trove of representations that echo Auster’s (and his characters’) craft. If intertextuality, notebooks, pencils, typewriters, paintings and movies inhabit Auster’s tales, we should also study the paratextual material as a companion that enhances the scope of Auster’s own writing, and partakes in its reception outside the books. Therefore, this fellowship project aims at exploring the transmedia and transnational achievements of various translators and artists who have contributed to the international outreach of Paul Auster’s original body of writing in poetry, autobiography and fiction.