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This essay examines how Paul Auster’s Man in the Dark uses cinematic techniques to explore trauma and time.

Cinematic Time and Traumatic Ethics: A Deleuzian Reading of Catastrophe in Paul Auster’s Man in the Dark

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Essay analyzes how narrative techniques in Auster's novel depict trauma and ethics through cinematic temporality, suggesting new literary forms.

This essay examines how Paul Auster’s Man in the Dark uses cinematic techniques to explore trauma and time.
Close analysis of Auster’s narrative techniques related to cinematic temporality and trauma representation.
Examination of spatial-temporal metaphors and the crystalline narrative mode in the novel.
Application of Gilles Deleuze’s film-philosophy to interpret concepts of memory and ethics.
Auster translates cinematic effects into prose to enhance sensory impacts of violence.
The narrative reflects on trauma's disjointed durée through spatial-temporal metaphors.
Auster enacts a poetics that resists closure, promoting a dynamic reconfiguration of trauma.

Ding Dong (2026) studied this question.

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Essay analyzes how narrative techniques in Auster's novel depict trauma and ethics through cinematic temporality, suggesting new literary forms.