ABSTRACT
This chapter presents Paul Auster's novel which in its style invents the solitude of writing itself. It discusses how it is possible to recognize in his style a practice of writing that also crosses paths with psychoanalysis. When Jacques Lacan speaks about style in regard to the literary field it is the author Marguerite Duras he pays homage to. He acknowledges her style of writing as a practice of the letter which crosses paths with the practice of psychoanalysis. It is a style which takes writing to the point where it does away with any meaning of the said by rather playing with language to make way for the unconscious. David Pereira poses that the litura, evolved from Lacan's play on words regarding the relationship between, literature, littoral and psychoanalysis, is the element that knots the letter in a writing which returns something to the address of the sender between “inscription and erasure.
