Note: This is a critical study of Moon Palace by Paul Auster, not the novel itself.

[Paul Auster's Moon Palace] novel is a piece of contemporary writing that almost instantly attracted attention in literary criticism as well as in the literary classrooms of schools and universities. In an exemplary interpretation of the novel, this volume integrates theoretical concepts from narrotology, visual culture and cultural history into a close reading of the aesthetic and structural features of the novel. Interpretative insight into a postmodern novel is thus combined with the provision of transferable conceptual knowledge.