Originally published in three parts between 1985 and 1987 (City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room), The New York Trilogy would be the release of Paul Auster at the international level recognition as one of the great American storytellers of recent times.
"It all began with a wrong number, the phone rang three times in the middle of the night and the voice on the other side asked by someone who was not him." So begins City of Glass, the first of three novels that make up the New York Trilogy. Quinn, far to undo the misunderstanding, gets into the role and is involved in a story full of puzzles, complicated parent-child relationships, madness and delirium. In Ghosts, the second of the pieces, a private detective and the man he has to keep playing hide and seek in a claustrophobic urban world. Finally, in the closed room the protagonist is confronted with memories of a childhood friend when the latter's wife wrote him a letter explaining that her husband has mysteriously disappeared. In The New York Trilogy writer manages, manipulates and invents the detective genre, which makes a re-tinged postmodern metaphysical reading. The detective plot is used to raise the reader a fascinating game mirrors, symbols, winks and surprises.
The random nature of the will and a particular way of understanding and suspense come together in this collection of short stories, pointing and some of the key to future literary production Auster. Moreover, as we explore many of the resources later reach its peak in novels such as Leviathan: reflections on the creative process itself, a mixture of essay and fiction and this game of mirrors reality so dear to the author and his readers.
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