The growing popularity of Paul Auster's oeuvre (both literary and cinematic) has called forth a great number of critical interpretations, drawing attention to the psychological, philosophical, historical-political facets of his fiction. The novelty of this book consists in that it contains four essays put together eclectically, in order to offer an insight in four different approaches on the above mentioned topics. At the same time it presents an interdisciplinary aspect of literature, as it considers many spheres which occur in Auster's work: relationship between film and literature, adaptation theory, manifestations of the uncanny on narrative levels, relation between the writing self and the urban space, and the deconstruction of popular American myths. Thus, the present analysis addresses both graduate and undergraduate students, and anyone else who may be interested in the fields of American literature and film studies.