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Literally following in the footsteps of Daniel Quinn, the main character in Paul Auster’s City of Glass, through the streets of New York City, this excursive chapter traces the historical, biographical, cultural, and literary narratives inscribed in Quinn’s passage, which takes him through many of Auster’s old neighborhoods or haunts. Finding himself diverted by a personal matter and unable to complete Quinn’s story, Coughlan reads his situation in terms of Jacques Derrida’s account of the acolyte, whose following is always interrupted, which means that any following, or any relation between self and other, is a relation of faithfulness and betrayal.
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Coughlan, D. (2016). Haunts. In: Ghost Writing in Contemporary American Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-41024-5_6
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