InQ Episode 83: "The New York Trilogy"

If you think you are embarking in a simple detective story, think
again! The New York trilogy will take you deeper and further than
any other “noir” novel you have read thus far. Composed of three
stand alone novellas, the reader soon realizes they all share
common threads, if not common characters.


Touching on broad themes like identity, narrative creation, what
constitutes a writer, solitude, obsession, the blurred lined
between fiction and reality, and between sanity and insanity, The
New York trilogy cannot leave its reader indifferent.
Purposefully written to provide a mirror for its reader, the New
York trilogy cannot but leave the reader pondering, shaken and
forever altered.


Brilliant, it is not however to be put in everyone’s hands. A
reader with some knowledge of narratology, meta-fiction,
deconstruction and post-modernity may be better equipped to swim
in the dark and muddy waters of Paul Auster’s fascinating
creation.