A Legible Causality

From Laura Miller's review new Yorker 1/30/2017 of Paul Auster's 4 3 2 1: "The narration in Auster's novels typically dominates every other element in a ferocious and doomed assertion that the world the book describes is not ruled by happenstance. Maybe that's what all storytelling is meant to do: reassure its audience that a legible causality shapes our world and our lives."