Paul Auster experiments creatively on biography and autobiography in The Invention of Solitude. He firstly portrays the subject on the basis of biographical facts in line with the traditional historical or psychological approach

which gradually turns out to be invalid

and hence his unique search into the new approach of memory explaining. Auster actually abandons all possible artistic rendering techniques

be they the causal narration of facts or a complete structure

in quest for the primitive conscious

memory and thoughts. Finally

he finds rather than creates the real identity of the self.