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Jan 6, 2019 · The narrator is narrating a story of what Auggie once told him in the present, and the frame story is the one which Auggie tells Paul, the narrator, about Robert Goodwin. The layering of story upon story is a classic style in Paul Auster’s work.
After listening to Auggie’s tale of “the lost wallet and the blind woman and the Christmas dinner,” the narrator’s initial response is one of total empathy for the lonely, aging blind woman and respect for Auggie: “ ‘It was a good deed, Auggie.
- Linda Collinge-Germain
- 2013
Though Paul Auster, in spite of his spending several years in France, most probably had no contact with Picard’s essay, his story “Auggie Wren’s Christmas Story,” published on December 25, 1990...
Michel Picard, in an interdisciplinary approach using existing research in the fields of psychology and anthropology, theorized the link between the literary reader and play in his essay La Lecture comme jeu published in 1986.
The story is mainly told by a first-person narrator. The story switches narrators for a while when Auggie Wren tells his Christmas story. The language is casual and conversational, although at times the author also uses complex vocabulary.
The Christmas story symbolizes creative output. In this case, the narrative subverts the role of creator and audience, as Paul, who is a writer and the main narrator, is reluctant to come up with such a story, and is consigned to the role of audience instead.
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Dec 25, 2004 · Author Paul Auster reads "Auggie Wren's Christmas Story." The short story has no Santa Claus, no Christmas tree, and no brightly wrapped packages. And yet there's plenty of giving.
