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rivate room may serve: it is a mirror of the inhabitant, a context in which to position the self, a place of and motor for identity quests, a rich metaphor, and a second skin around the inhabitant’s physical body. Even in times of increasing globalization and urbanization, the room continues to root

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,Jonathan Safran Foer: “Room After Room”,vade Foer’s writing. To write on walls, the use of walls as both connecting and separating, or the porousness of walls are returning features in his novels and play a central role also in this short story.

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Introduction,rt story “Room After Room” (2007)—publications of recent decades, each of which put rooms at the center of their narratives. The respective rooms are developed as central constituents of not only the plot but also of the characters’ exploration and negotiation of their identities, crises, relationsh

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Paul Auster: ,ll focus. It is Auster’s first prose text and, in many respects, forms the basis of his subsequent writings to the point of informing his entire oeuvre. Auster’s overall concerns (such as poverty, solitude, chance, locked rooms, or the relationship of fathers and sons) are thus assembled in . in a c

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Richard Powers: ,lured back into creative work by her old acquaintance, Steve Spiegel, who offers her a position in Seattle. He takes her on board a team of computer specialists at TeraSys who create a “Computer-Assisted Virtual Environ” (8) called the Cavern, which is a room made of high-resolution screens onto whi

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