Una poetica della scomparsa. Sulla poesia di Paul Auster

Although he is now one of the most celebrated contemporary American novelists, Paul Auster started his career as a poet and a translator of poetry. This essay focuses on the concept of disappearance, which emerges from Auster’s verses almost as a form of aesthetic thinking, close to the ideas of Maurice Blanchot. The idea of disappearance seems to operate as a device within the act of writing itself, and produces a transformation of the writing subject and his or her world. This fundamental Blanchotian thesis represents a line of inquiry for reading Auster’s poetry, especially from the point of view of the experience of writing. Auster’s "poetics of disappearance" is a clear example of Blanchot’s influence on his way of looking at the act of writing, especially in his early and lesser known works.