Nominated for an Edgar award for best mystery of the year, City of Glass inaugurates an intriguing New York Trilogy of novels that The Washington Post Book World has classified as "post-existentialist private eye... It's as if Kafka has gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned his own ever-spiraling version." As a result of a strange phone call in the middle of the night, Quinn, a writer of detective stories, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than any he might have written. Written with hallucinatory clarity, City of Glass combines dark humor with Hitchcock-like suspense. Ghosts and The Locked Room are the next two brilliant installments in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy.
New York Trilogy Series
This trilogy delves into the murky depths of human psychology and identity. Follow protagonists as they descend into labyrinths of mystery, loss, and obsession within the backdrop of a vibrant yet menacing metropolis. Each narrative acts as a mirror, reflecting the fragility of reality and the constant search for meaning in a chaotic world. The series provokes reflection on what defines our existence and the traces we leave behind.
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- 122 pages
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Pour ce deuxième livre de sa Trilogie new-yorkaise, Paul Auster met en scène d'autres personnages que ceux de Cité de verre. Les protagonistes ici se nomment Blanc, Bleu et Noir. Mais deux d'entre eux sont à nouveau des détectives privés et leurs tribulations à New York mettent une fois encore en évidence la précarité de l'identité en même temps que les très pervers effets de miroir du destin. De telle sorte que l'impitoyable filature, à laquelle on demeure suspendu comme dans les meilleurs thrillers, nous ramène aux interrogations du premier livre. Avec, cette fois, une intensité croissante dans le tragique. On comprend après cela que l'ascension de Paul Auster, parmi les écrivains de sa génération, ait été aussi irrésistible que la métaphysique angoisse où il nous plonge.
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The remarkable, acclaimed series of interconnected detective novels City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room, from New York Times bestselling author Paul Auster “Exhilarating . . . a brilliant investigation of the storyteller’s art guided by a writer-detective who’s never satisfied with just the facts.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer City of Glass: As a result of a strange phone call in the middle of the night, Quinn, a writer of detective stories, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than any he might have written. Ghosts: Blue, a student of Brown, has been hired by White to spy on Black. From a window of a rented room on Orange Street, Blue keeps watch on his subject, who is across the street, staring out of his own window. The Locked Room: Fanshawe has disappeared, leaving behind his wife and baby and a cache of extraordinary novels, plays, and poems. What happened to him and why is the narrator, Fanshawe’s boyhood friend, lured obsessively into his life? Moving at the breathless pace of a thriller, this is a uniquely stylized trilogy of detective novels that The Washington Post Book World has classified as “post-existential private eye. . . . It’s as if Kafka has gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned his own ever-spiraling version.”
The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. In each story, the search for clues leads to remarkable coincidences in the universe as the simple act of trailing a man ultimately becomes a startling investigation of what it means to be human. Auster's book is modern fiction at its finest: bold, arresting and unputdownable. Three stories on the nature of identity. In the first a detective writer is drawn into a curious and baffling investigation, in the second a man is set up in an apartment to spy on someone, and the third concerns the disappearance of a man whose childhood friend is left as his literary executor.