They allow an accurate eye to understand the layers which compose each novel, and they are the testimony of the work in progress, also highlighting what Paul Auster considers as a full artistic process, the choice of the titles - The Locked Room was initially called Ghosts. From a first draft for City of Glass, entitled New York Confidential, then a typed version of Ghosts, entitled Black outs, to a quite advanced manuscript of The Locked Room: reading them is a fabulous dive in Paul Auster’s extremely creative laboratory. This edition is the reproduction of The New York Trilogy’s manuscripts. eNotes critical analyses help you gain a deeper understanding of The New York Trilogy so you can excel on your essay or test. Hundred of boxes are filled with manuscripts, drafts, typescripts, pages of famous novels, correspondences… We had the chance to have access to them thanks to the famous writer and the curator, Isaac Gewirtz, who guided us through this captivating labyrinth of documents. Discussion of themes and motifs in Paul Austers The New York Trilogy. "It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on the other end asking for someone he was not."Īt the prestigious New York Public Library, on the Berg Collection’s shelves, lay historical and literary treasures, such as Paul Auster’s archives.
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