Incredulity of Grand-Narratives: Dystopic, Alternative, and Suppressed Narratives in Paul Auster’s Man in the Dark

Paul Auster habitually uses multiple narrative structures in his novels and situates the reader a mesh of narratives which neither real narrator is discerned nor protagonist’s identity distinguishable. In Man Dark, two dystopic lines novel with undistinguished characters’ to question credulity grand-narrative. Lyotard’s theory postmodernism, grand questioned since it disregards different voices novels. Brill Brick are one character but functions novel. tells story consciously tries recreate self-made about who semi-fabricated deconstruct alternative America, though political decisions were different. The idea dystopia, confusion, temporal spatial confusion reveals possibility narration way or other. Temporally, past present connected through reinterpretations imaginations disproves constructs deconstructs identities American setting implies that most unspoken suppressed aspects reduce grand-narratives.