The New York Trilogy (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Paul Auster
- First Published: 1985
- Type of Work: Novels (includes , 1985; , 1986; and , 1986)
- Genres: Long fiction, Metafiction
- Subjects: New York, North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Psychology or psychologists, Self, Detectives, Depression, mental, Identity, Fate or fatalism, Private investigators
- Locales: New York, NY, France, Boston, MA, Paris, France, New Jersey
The New York Trilogy comprises Auster's first three novels, City of Glass (1985), Ghosts (1986), and The Locked Room (1986). It introduces the themes that Auster would continue to explore in novels for years to come. Drawing on the style of hard-boiled detective fiction and the imagery of film noir, Auster sets these three intricate mysteries in New York in different time periods. Essentially, each of these three books tells the same story, as the nameless narrator confesses at the end of The Locked Room, related at different stages of the narrator's...
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