City of Glass. In the middle of the night a silent and haunted New York, Daniel Quinn, author of detective stories, gets a call from a stranger who mistook him for detective Paul Auster. Worn on the fascinating role of the latter, Quinn decides to meet his mysterious interlocutor. Peter Stillman, the man's name, is an individual from the past grim after the death of his mother, father, obsessed with finding the primitive language, held him incommunicado in his home by hiding in the eyes of the world and avoiding direct contact with the 'outside to where the story was not accidentally discovered and the jailer arrested. Now that his father has served a jail, Peter and his wife rely on false Auster pawns for the task of avoiding any form of revenge and find out what plans hidden.
Ghosts. The investigator Blue is instructed by his boss, the mysterious White, to get on the trail of the mysterious Black and spy slavishly every step of his life. Having settled in the apartment in front of the Black with the intention of revealing the moves, Blue will eventually get lost in the obsession of discovering the truth, losing in this way all contact with reality and ultimately discovering the weakness of the border that separates from being hunter prey.
The Locked Room . In the placid flow of monotonous existence, the writer protagonist of this story is contacted by the wife of an old friend Fanshawe, who disappeared mysteriously years before, that decides what to do with voluminous written material that the man left the woman, as the latter ' Last expressly requested before his death. Through the manuscripts of his friend, the writer will rebuild the steps of uneven existence over the top, to obsessively immerse themselves into the shoes of Fanshawe with the intention to begin your search. But the unexpected arrival of a letter by the latter leaves everything hanging in the balance.
Published in the United States between 1985 and 1987 in Italy and collected in one volume published by Enaudi, the stories of The New York Trilogy mark the intersection between classic noir and Ellroy to the most complex system, which Kafka catapult Auster's anti-heroes in a world of visionary New York populated by ghosts who ply the streets apathetic. Prey to his own obsessions, each of the protagonists in the tale told in the middle of the victim will end up tipping the parties, in a crazy game of references autocitazionistici that slowly but inexorably, lead the reader to the awareness of having been involved in a turn in metaromanzo which each story helps to clarify the meaning of that previous year. Yes, because Trilogy is not really a collection, but one story unfolded in three parts so that those who have the desire and attention to reconstructing the clues left scattered by the author and draw a greater plot that goes beyond the superficiality of the story police to arrive at a more serious introspection of the individual research.
"It started with a wrong number, three blasts on the phone in the middle of the night and the voice unit, asking for someone who was not him. Much later, when he was able to think about what had happened, he concluded that nothing was real except chance. But this was a long time later. Initially, there were only the fact and its consequences. The question is not whether they could have developed otherwise or whether everything was already established from the first word spoken from the unknown. The question is the story itself: what it meant or not, not for the story to explain " (from City of Glass )
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