![]() In City of Glass, a writer of detective fiction becomes a private investigator and finds himself going mad as he investigates a case. For example, the easiness of transforming into somebody else through changing a name, a habit of the characters in the books, becomes a symptom of a fragmented personality. Sometimes the investigation involves the language itself, in particular the role of names in the stories. However, the existential quest always overlaps and takes the place of an actual inquiry. In fact, each of the books features a real detective and an apparent mystery to solve. The plots of the books involve ambiguity, as Auster experiments with the detective genre. ![]() ![]() These books elevated Paul Auster to fame and showed how he used dramatic effect in a post-modern literary setting. ![]() The New York Trilogyis a collection of three short novels, City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room, that came out between 19. ![]()
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