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Analysis of "Random Notes - September 11, 2001, 4: 00 P.M.; Underground" by Paul Auster with regard to public and private trauma (in English)
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Synopsis "Analysis of "Random Notes - September 11, 2001, 4: 00 P.M.; Underground" by Paul Auster with regard to public and private trauma (in English)"
Seminar paper from the year 2017 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,3, University of Würzburg, language: English, abstract: We all know about the terrorist attacks on the 11th of September 2001. They were unprecedented in their magnitude and aftermath. In the wake of the attacks a huge amount of personal essays, political opinions and testimonials were produced by several novelists, short story writers, script authors, playwrights and artists. The need of not only reconstruction by engineers and clean-up crews but also stories that try to make the survival meaningful was discovered. A lot of authors try to find a meaning in the silence after the disaster and try to create an index to measure the absences that define New York. In this seminar paper one of the above-mentioned short stories with the title Random Notes - September 11, 2001, 4:00 P.M.; Underground by Paul Auster with regard to public and private trauma will be analyzed. In the New York Times Summary of Final Report the following has been written: "We call on the American people to remember how we all felt on 9/11, to remember not only the unspeakable horror but how we all came together as a nation - one nation." ("Summary of the Final Report" 1)) where the American identity and the American sense of togetherness and the strong intention to defeat the terror and the trauma is shown. In this paper the aspects will be discussed, delimited and analyzed on the basis of Auster's short story, published in Ulrich Bears 110 Stories on the 11th of September 2012, because he had an incredible gift of shaping the horrible disaster into words. Before the 110 Stories had been edited by Ulrich Bear there was not any single collection that has recorded how New York writers of literary fiction, poetry and dramatic prose responded to the 11th of September. Ulrich Baer commented about his book: " The World Trade Center's twin towers rose 110 stories high. Just as each of these 1
