Oracle Night
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Oracle Night is a metafictional novel by Paul Auster that follows a writer whose mysterious blue notebook begins to blur the boundaries between his fiction and reality.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
metafictional novel
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Paul Auster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| centralObject | blue notebook ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| genre |
metafiction
ⓘ
postmodern literature ⓘ |
| hasCharacter |
Grace Orr
NERFINISHED
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John Trause NERFINISHED ⓘ Sidney Orr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasNarrator | first-person narrator ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryStyle |
intertextual
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postmodern ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Sidney Orr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| motif |
notebooks and manuscripts
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writing as creation of reality ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice |
metafictional self-reference
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story within a story ⓘ |
| narratorIdentity | Sidney Orr NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOfAuthorOeuvre | Paul Auster bibliography NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| plotElement | mysterious blue notebook ⓘ |
| protagonistOccupation | writer ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| theme |
authorial control
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blurred boundaries between fiction and reality ⓘ chance and coincidence ⓘ power of storytelling ⓘ |
| timePeriod | late 20th century ⓘ |
| workOf | Paul Auster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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