![]() This is an obvious use of Auster exploring the difference between writer and character, including himself within his own fiction. Quinn says that Auster is not available and puts the phone down, regretting this decision almost instantly, as he is a writer of detective fiction in need of a new idea for his next novel. In City of Glass, Quinn receives a strange phone call late one evening, asking if he is Paul Auster, the famous private investigator. ![]() Auster also experiments with the connection and relationship between author, narrator and protagonist, making them flow seamlessly into the same thing. Written by Paul Auster, the trilogy examines the changing identities and ideas of the self through Auster’s main characters, Quinn in City of Glass, Blue in Ghosts, and the un-named narrator in The Locked Room. ![]() ![]() This modern trilogy is made up of three short stories, City of Glass (1985), Ghosts (1986) , and The Locked Room (1986), each published individually before being made into a one-volume edition in 1990. ![]()
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