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	The New York Trilogy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The New York Trilogy is a series of novels or long stories by Paul Auster.
		Ostensibly presented as detective fiction, the stories of The New York Trilogy have been described as "metaanti-detective-fiction"; "mysteries about mysteries"; a "strangely humorous working of the detective novel"; "very soft-boiled"; a "metamystery"; "glassy little jigsaws"; a "mixture between the detective story and the nouveau roman".
		The New York Trilogy is a particular form of postmodern detective fiction which still uses well-known elements of the detective novel (e.g.
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	Paul Auster (The Definitive Website)
		The New York Times in turn labelled Auster "a talent to watch...a writer who could tickle the brains of highbrow literary critics and spin a good yarn too".
		Then came the Trilogy, and the rest, as we know, is history, as Auster has since proven himself a prolific writer churning out classic after classic, even dabbling in film (he wrote the screenplay for Smoke, Blue In The Face, and directed Lulu On The Bridge).
		Though the Trilogy remains, in the eyes of many Auster fans, his most accomplished work, his subsequent novels are by no means less compelling or confusing.
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	New York City history
		In 1664, New Amsterdam was forcibly appended to the rising British Empire and renamed after James, Duke of York, the brother of King Charles II.
		New York became a vital seaport supplying agricultural products from the Caribbean sugar islands and serving as a British strategic base for military actions against the French.
		After the Civil War 1861-1865, New York became the principal facilitator of the industrialization of the United States as well as of its imperial westward expansion, the home of America's great banking houses and exchanges, the preeminent portal for immigration, the leading export port, in short the economic, social and cultural capital of the US.
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	New York Culture - Hotels New York - Vacation Rentals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		New York State Theater, also in the Lincoln Center (tel: (212) 870 5570; website: www.lincolncenter.org), is home to the revered New York City Ballet (website: www.nycballet.com), which performs more contemporary ballet for a nine-week season each spring.
		New York has been portrayed through celluloid in a number of ways, ranging from the ridiculous yet enduring images of King Kong, swinging from the Empire State Building, in the 1933 classic starring Fay Wray, to the psychological horrors of Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver (1976).
		New York’s most famous contemporary novelist is Paul Auster, who won international acclaim for The New York Trilogy (1987), a book comprising three novellas – City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room – all set in New York.
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	Chris Pace's thesis
		Auster's New York Trilogy is comprised of three short novels (City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room) whose themes and ideas interweave and overlap to explore the nature of language and meaning through the conventions of a "hard boiled" detective novel.
		Auster chooses to use the detective genre in the trilogy at least in part because the rigid conventions of this form underline the set "roles" that the reader, the author, and the characters are supposed to play in the creation of the book.
		Ghosts, the second installment of the trilogy, uses many of the same devices (such as the conventions of the detective novel, doubling, and locked rooms) to explore the relationship between the author, the characters, and the readers of a text.
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		The NYT has been described as metaphysical detective fiction and the description might in fact prove apt: each of the 3 stories follows the investigations of one man which always turn into an obsession, making the man completely lose touch with the reality.
		The NYT is thus much about mental processes, we see each of the 3 main chracters gradually become so absorbed by their quest that they lose all sense of proportion and stop thinking like the rest of us.
		The New York Trilogy is composed of three seemingly unconnected texts, all of which involve writing, notebooks, detective cases, and New York City.
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	The New York Trilogy
		Connecting themes explored from different perspectives run through the trilogy, themes which include the nature of writers and of writing and the need, or otherwise, to supply a story; of identity; of observation and filtering life through the perceived observations of others.
		There is an unpleasant fixation on early death, of fathers mourning their young sons (something which cropped up in Auster's wife's novel, 'What I Loved', too, and which seems a subject never far from his work), and there are a plethora of red notebooks, disappearances, locked/unlocked doors and unanswered telephones.
		The author is in firm control, prompting in his characters an automatic reassessing of expectation, a tweaking or fine-tuning of anticipation in accordance with the presentation of new facts or awareness, and this is echoed in the mind of the reader as the effects, or possibility of change, or reaction are explored.
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	Jane Siberry - "New York Trilogy"
		The New York Trilogy, a series of live recordings consisting of three CDs, is a treat for one’s ears and an adventure for the mind and soul.
		With the use of brass, strings, funk guitars, and a beautiful chorus of female voices, this trilogy is a worthwhile listen for people of all musical tastes.
		This disk, which is sexy and is performed with a lot of soul (did I mention that it includes a spoken history of the word fuck?) packs a much greater punch than the preceding disc.
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	The New York Trilogy: Discussion Here - The CHUD.COM Message Boards
		Penguin Classics is putting out a new paperback of the trilogy featuring a cover by Art (Maus) Spiegleman...seeing as I've lost my old copy about three moves ago, I'll probably pick this new one up.
		Whilst clearly possessing the knowledge of a resident, Auster paints New York in ethereal strokes, capturing the magic of twenty-four hour big city life perfectly.
		Upon hearing news of a man murdering his partner with a knife most people will shake their heads and move on.
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	The SF Site Featured Review: New York Blues
		New York Blues is more action-focused than its predecessor, and follows a more straightforward mystery storyline.
		If this results a certain loss of depth (the previous novel was as much concerned with a finely-nuanced exploration of the inner lives and alternative lifestyles of its protagonists as with the mystery), it also makes for a better-structured plot, without the over-reliance on coincidence that marred the first book.
		Brown's vivid near-future New York, lashed by the rains of climate change and teeming with refugees, draws on the conventions of cyberpunk but doesn't feel derivative.
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	New York Bookshelf: Winners’ Tales: New York’s New Classics
		Wolfe said he had instructed himself that "this will be a novel of New York" with the city "always in the foreground, a constant presence exerting its irresistible pressure upon the mind and psyche of every character, to the point where no one any longer has a soul independent of Colossus."
		The New York Trilogy (City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room) by Paul Auster (1985-87), because it shows the city, and not just Manhattan, through modernist lenses, full of puzzles and paradoxes, and presents our fully recognizable city reimagined in three short volumes.
		Manhattan, When I Was Young by Mary Cantwell (1995), because it captures, better than any other book I know, the clashing feelings of starting a life in New York: the excitement and fear of the subways and the crowds, as well as the profound pleasures of becoming familiar with the city.
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		The novelist Paul Auster, author of "The New York Trilogy" and the screenplay for the movie "Smoke," will receive the sixth annual John William Corrington Award for Literary Excellence and read from his work at Centenary College on Friday, April 19.
		Born in 1947 in Newark, New Jersey, and educated at Columbia University (where he earned the M.A. Degree in 1970), Auster is the youngest author and the first non-Southerner to receive the Corrington Award.
		Auster published "Augie Wren's Christmas Story" in the New York Times on Dec. 25, 1990, and this short story served as the basis for his screenplay for the critically acclaimed 1995 movie "Smoke," which starred William Hurt, Harvey Keitel, Stockard Channning, and Forest Whitaker.
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	Guardian Unlimited Books \| News \| New York trilogy
		A shattered New York, reeling from the shock of the attacks, the smoke still rising, and a sense of horror and unreality almost overwhelming the traumatised populace as the sun shone from obscenely clear skies in the September and October of 2001.
		It was also clear that in each of the three periods I had chosen, devastation on a grand scale had been inflicted on New York, specifically in the same few square blocks of lower Manhattan.
		In fact, New York has suffered serial catastrophe ever since the Dutch arrived in the early 17th century and built a wall across the island to keep the native Americans out.
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	Amazon.ca: The New York Trilogy: Books: Paul Auster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The novels that make up Paul Auster's New York Trilogy are notable for their brevity, inclusion of relatively extraneous material, and chronicling the main character's disintegration.
		In each of the three, the detector (a mystery writer enrolled as a detective, a detective watching a writer, and a writer trying to find his childhood friend who has made him his literary executor) becomes obsessed, his previous life cracking up.
		Auster's detectives (and, surely, Auster himself) are very concerned with inscription: the notebook of the first, both the reports of surveillance and what Black is writing in the second, the texts Fanshawe left behind and the biography of him that never gets written in the third.
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	New York Trilogy, the - Paul Auster - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		New York Trilogy, the - Paul Auster : Identity
		New York Trilogy, the - Paul Auster : Engrossing, postmodern detctive yarn
		New York Trilogy, the - Paul Auster : New York, New York
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		Auster is called "postmodern" by some critics, but they all seem to agree that his main themes are loss of self, the role of chance, and the unconventional employment of genre conventions.
		The Babel image in NY Trilogy is discussed, along with Auster's recurring themes of fact blurring with fiction, negation of the personality, and how language itself is in mortal danger.
		A critical reading looks at signification and space in Paul Auster's 'New York Trilogy.' The argument focuses on three spaces: the pedestrian, the mapped and the utopian and how these function in the novel.
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	Amazon.co.uk: The New York Trilogy: "City of Glass", "Ghosts" and "Locked Room": Books: Paul Auster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		There is also the question of American history and the vision of New York as a junk heap.
		Get ready for a ride through the complexity of human race, all the mixed, funny, sad and incomprehensible emotion of the common man. A maze of clues which leaves you, not necessary to a dead end, but never to a shiny place.
		NY Trilogy is certainly an entertaining and perplexing work of fiction, each story a variation on the theme of identity (lost and found), rootlessness, insecurity, what makes us human and individual, and other heavy themes.
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	INWARD GAZE OF A PRIVATE EYE - New York Times
		This is the final volume in his ''New York Trilogy,'' and the first two, ''City of Glass'' and ''Ghosts,'' left a sour, medicinal taste, as if I had swallowed something terribly good for me but not very toothsome.
		The trouble with ''City of Glass'' and ''Ghosts'' is the absence of a flatfoot worth hoofing around decrepit New York with; in addition, one longs for characters more robust and more resourceful, less wan, less cipherlike.
		But ''The Locked Room,'' which works best if you have read the other two books first, is a brilliant leap forward, a beguiling entertainment that accomplishes nearly everything the first two books set out to do and provides a diverting main character as well.
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	Powell's Books - The New York Trilogy: City of Glass; Ghosts; The Locked Room (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Paul ...
		Paul Auster's signature work, The New York Trilogy, consists of three interlocking novels: City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room — haunting and mysterious tales that move at the breathless pace of a thriller.
		Auster's trilogy broke ground in its mix of serious fictional techniques and detective and mystery genres.
		Geoffrey O'Brien of "The Village Voice "wrote: ""The New York Trilogy "are novels of desire: the desire to write a detective novel, to read one, to -inhabit it.
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	The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster \| LibraryThing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Delirious New York : a Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas
		By his inadvertent creation of a new persona, he erases his past; but as he was only really defined by his novels, it is a far easier task than it first appeared.
		The NEW YORK TRILOGY seems designed to provoke different responses, alternate beliefs as to what it all means.
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	Paul Auster's Urban Nothingness
		The nonentity of Stillman's identity is underlined as Quinn follows him on ostensibly random walks around New York, as he drifts from being one person to another.
		Yet in his thesis on the trilogy, Chris Pace states that the book must not be interpreted as a series of riddles from which answers must be derived, but that, as Auster says, the books must be a "springboard for the imagination".
		Interestingly, the traditional male domination of the detective yarn is replicated in the trilogy.
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	Literary New York - New York Times
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		As the novelist Paul Auster writes in "The New York Trilogy:" "New York was an inexhaustible space, a labyrinth of endless steps, and no matter how far he walked, no matter how well he came to know its neighborhoods and streets, it always left him with the feeling of being lost." Here, Mr.
		But both men know that New York is a place worth getting lost in any time of the year.
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	BBC - collective - Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy
		Paul Auster's "The New York Trilogy" is actually unnerving.
		If you've read the blurb you will already know that this is three stories in one, all rooted in the detective genre, and if you've read the beginning you'll know that with those first few words the stories threaten to suck you in.
		And yes, when I was finished I did actually call a friend at three in the morning just to tell her how good it was.
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	Reading matters: Book Group: Session 1 discussion - 'New York Trilogy' by Paul Auster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Another recurring theme seemed to be the loneliness of writing, or the fact that the only way to write is to cut yourself off from the world, to be a little distant from it, to act as an observer rather than a participant.
		I think the book could have played out in any city, although New York offers a setting where there are thousands and thousands of people in close proximity, adding to the ability of the characters to just 'disappear' or remain unseen which in many other cities may not be as plausable.
		New York Trilogy displays an author too far up his own arse.
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	Salon People \| Paul Auster (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It was "City of Glass," the first novel in his "New York Trilogy," and my ex and I took turns reading chapters aloud.
		After the "Trilogy," I got to work on the rest of his oeuvre.
		It's California riffing on oak-and-brass New York, and not to unappealing effect.
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	American Wins Spanish Literature Prize
		Wednesday, May 31, 2006; 12:07 PM MADRID, Spain -- Paul Auster, author of "The New York Trilogy" and "The Book of Illusions," among other works, won Spain's Prince of Asturias prize for literature Wednesday.
		The 59-year-old novelist, poet, screenplay writer and translator was chosen "for the literary renewal he has carried out by uniting the best of North American and European traditions," said Victor Garcia de la Concha, president of the prize organizers' committee.
		He gained fame for his detective story series, "The New York Trilogy," in which he deals with existential issues and the search for identity.
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