The new york trilogy review6/10/2023 ![]() Blue becomes frustrated and loses himself as he becomes immersed in the life of Black. ![]() Blue writes written reports to White who in turn pays him for his work. ![]() ![]() “Auster harnesses the inquiring spirit any reader brings to a mystery, redirecting it from the grubby search for a wrongdoer to the more rarified search for self. The second story, Ghosts, is about a private eye called Blue, trained by Brown, who is investigating a man named Black on Orange Street for a client named White. “It’s as if Kafka had gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned his own ever-spiraling version.” – The Washington Post The New York Trilogy is an astonishing and original book: three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction and achieve a new genre that is all the more gripping for its starkness. “Exhilarating.a brilliant investigation of the storyteller’s art guided by a writer who’s never satisfied with just the facts.” “Eminently readable and mysterious.Auster has added some new dimensions to modern literature, and – more importantly even – to our perspectives on our planet.” Auster’s obsessions with identity, language, ambiguity and defeat are revealed on the long, tailing walks through the metropolis that give his labyrinthine novels their switchback shape, and New York looms throughout like a modern-day Babel.” “The plots twist, the dialogue snaps and the humor stings. ![]()
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