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Author | Paul Auster |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Genre | Mystery novel Postmodern fiction |
Publisher | Faber & Faber |
1987 (hbk) 1988 (pbk) | |
Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
Pages | 478 pp. (hbk) 314 pp. (pbk) |
ISBN | 9780571149254 (hbk) ISBN9780571152230 |
OCLC | 16683990 |
Preceded by | The Invention of Solitude |
Followed by | In the Country of Last Things |
Free download or read online The New York Trilogy pdf (ePUB) book. The first edition of the novel was published in 1987, and was written by Paul Auster. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of 308 pages and is available in Paperback format. The main characters of this fiction, mystery story are,.
The New York Trilogy is a series of novels by Paul Auster. Originally published sequentially as City of Glass (1985), Ghosts (1986) and The Locked Room (1986), it has since been collected into a single volume.
- 1Plot introduction
- 3Bibliography
Plot introduction[edit]
A 2006 reissue by Penguin Books is fronted by new pulp magazine-style covers by comic book illustrator Art Spiegelman.
City of Glass[edit]
The first story, City of Glass, features a detective fiction writer-become-private investigator who descends into madness as he becomes embroiled in a case. It explores layers of identity and reality, from Paul Auster the writer of the novel to the unnamed 'author' who reports the events as reality to 'Paul Auster the writer', a character in the story, to 'Paul Auster the detective', who may or may not exist in the novel, to Peter Stillman the younger, to Peter Stillman the elder and, finally, to Daniel Quinn, protagonist.
'City of Glass' has an intertextual relationship with Cervantes' Don Quixote. Not only does the protagonist Daniel Quinn share his initials with the knight, but when Quinn finds 'Paul Auster the writer,' Auster is in the midst of writing an article about the authorship of Don Quixote. Auster calls his article an 'imaginative reading,' and in it he examines possible identities of Cide Hamete Benengeli, the narrator of the Quixote.
Ghosts[edit]
The second story, Ghosts, is about a private eye called Blue, trained by Brown, who is investigating a man named Black on Orange Street for a client named White. Blue writes written reports to White who in turn pays him for his work. Blue becomes frustrated and loses himself as he becomes immersed in the life of Black.
The Locked Room[edit]
The Locked Room is the story of a writer who lacks the creativity to produce fiction. Fanshawe,[1] his childhood friend, has produced creative work, and when he disappears the writer publishes his work and replaces him in his family. The title is a reference to a 'locked room mystery', a popular form of early detective fiction.
Adaptations[edit]
City of Glass was adapted in 1994 into a critically acclaimed experimental graphic novel by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli. It was published as City of Glass: A Graphic Mystery in 2004.
In 2009, Audible.com produced an audio version of The New York Trilogy, narrated by Joe Barrett, as part of its Modern Vanguard line of audiobooks.
In 2016, Edward Einhorn adapted City of Glass as a play Off-Broadway, at the New Ohio [2][3]
In 2017, Duncan Macmillan produced another adaptation as a play, which showed for a short period at HOME in Manchester, before transferring to the Lyric, Hammersmith. It was a co-production between HOME, the Lyric, and 59 Productions.[4][5]
Bibliography[edit]
Editions[edit]
- Auster, Paul The New York Trilogy. (London: Faber and Faber, 1987) ISBN9780571152230.
Criticism[edit]
- Books
- Barone, Dennis (ed.) Beyond the Red Notebook (Pennsylvania: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1995) ISBN0812215567 (paperback). Two essays on City of Glass and The Locked Room, respectively.
- Bloom, Harold (ed.) Bloom's Modern Critical Views: Paul Auster (Broomall, PA: Chelsea House Publisher, 2004) ISBN0791076628. Several essays on The New York Trilogy.
- Martin, Brendan Paul Auster's Postmodernity (Oxford: Routledge, 2008) ISBN041596203X (hardback).
- Nicol, Bran The Cambridge Introduction to Postmodern Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009) ISBN9780521679572. Chapter 7, 'Two postmodern genres: cyberpunk and detective fiction', includes a section on City of Glass.
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Notes[edit]
- ^Reference to Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel Fanshawe' – Heiko Jakubzik: Paul Auster und die Klassiker der American Renaissance. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg 1999, p. 7 (online textArchived June 7, 2007, at the Wayback Machine)
- ^[1] Carol Mann agency blog
- ^[2] Untitled Theater Company No. 61 website
- ^http://cityofglass.org
- ^https://homemcr.org/production/paul-austers-city-of-glass/
External links[edit]
- Links to discussion of the work [Page missing]
- Blue print of relationships inside City of Glass [Private blog post, available to view only by invitation]
- 'The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster', reviewed by Ted Gioia, (The New Canon)
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