Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room
$250
The act of writing, memory, chance, the double, and the deconstruction of the protagonist are frequent literary elements we find in Paul Auster’s fictional work, especially in The New York Trilogy. In this Delve seminar, we will celebrate the late author and delve into the obsessions that made his writing a fascinating read.
City of Glass (1985) – New York City as a labyrinth to be deciphered and traced by its characters. Auster treats this exploration of the city and the act of writing as one and the same, creating an allegory of the book of Genesis, set in modern times.
Ghosts (1986) – a game of mirrors, with the same concerns of language and otherness, and the effect that the city has on his characters.
The Locked Room (1986) – a radical plot that intertwines the inner world of the characters with the subjectivity of a city whose collective personality and symbols become essential to the story.
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