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...novel’s narrative mirrors the character’s existential crisis: Walker??s point of view (one among three) varies from first- to third-, and even second-person. The story opens in the first-person, from Walker??s perspective, on the streets of New York City in 1967: a student and writer at Columbia University, Walker meets at a party the inscrutable Rudolf Born—a professor who soon thereafter offers to finance a literary magazine that would have Walker at its helm. This role provides Walker with a definitive, if transient, identity?...
Auster continues exploring Walker??s past: a shocking tragedy that changes him and his perception of himself, then his sexual exploits in New York and Paris, and later interactions with Born that bring the truth into a somewhat brighter—though still dim—light. This truth is found in the fourth section, in a combination of Freeman’s words and the diary of a third character that highlights the layers of text that obscure Walker??s identity...
...follows Freeman’s advice: “By writing about myself in the first person, I had smothered myself and made myself invisible, had made it impossible for me to find the thing I was looking for. I needed to separate myself from myself.” Walker??s literary distance—within the context of these self-conscious sections—helps him look for himself in darkly tinged sexuality and self-revelation...
...Walker and his fellow characters trapped in two dimensions. This stands in opposition, however, to the time and space Walker traverses—in such a multilayered, diligently designed novel, clichés seem strangely out of place. Perhaps, then, their presence is meant to highlight the futility of Walker??s quest for identity: can words and letters encompass the self? The soul? “Invisible” seems to suggest that they cannot, for at the novel’s end, Walker is flat and therefore fleeting, and a style that mirrors structure doesn?...
According to Walker, who’s also a Crimson arts writer, every student production on campus is given an A.R.T. mentor. Walker??s mentor last year attended rehearsals, tech week, and even frequently met for coffee to give her advice...