●A Note on Abbreviations
●Introduction
●Chapter One
● Major Quests in Paul Auster's Poetic World
● Ⅰ. The Quest for Father
● Ⅱ. The Quest for Redemption and Rebirth
● Ⅲ. The Image of Room: Duality of Solitude
●Chapter Two
● The Quest for Freedom in The sic of Chance
● Ⅰ. Freedom and Power of Subjection
● Ⅱ. The Quest for Freedom on the Road
● Ⅲ. Freedom under Power Control
●Chapter Three
● The Quests for Knowledge and Identity
● Ⅰ. The Quest for Knowledge in The New York Trilogy
● Ⅱ. The Quest for Self and Identity
● Ⅲ. Historical Identity and Identity Constructed in Relationships
●Chapter Four
● The Anti-Genre Narrative Mode of Paul Auster's Quests
● Ⅰ. tmodernist Mixture of Biography and Autobiography in The Invention of Solitude
●部分目錄