The study focuses on spatio-temporal relations and their dependence on literary genres in Paul Auster’s fiction. The author examines how selected novels reflect and redefine both the representation of space and formulaic patterns of genres they can be categorised as.

Julia Seltnerajch, Ph.D., works in the Department of English and American Studies at Maria Curie-Sk?odowska University, Lublin. Her main areas of academic interest include postmodernism, the evolution of literary genres, as well as spatial semiotics. She has published on British and American contemporary fiction and dystopian narratives.

Introduction — Chapter 1: Detecting Chronotopes: Auster’s Postmodern Detective Fiction — Chapter 2: Travels Inside a Room – Travels Inside a Mind: Paul Auster’s Psychological Novel — Chapter 3: Journeying Across the Country and Through Life: Road Novel and Bildungsroman — Conclusion — Works Cited — Index