City of Glass In City of Glass the writer of detective novels Daniel Quinn receives a phone call in the middle of the night by an individual in despair looking for Paul Auster, mysterious investigator of the 'Auster Detective Agency. " Quinn closes the communication, but in the nights following the calls are treated and Quinn decides to assume the identity of Paul Auster. Peter and Virginia Stillman hire Quinn, Paul Auster, believing it to be protected from Peter's father, just released from prison. Father and son bear the same name: Peter Stillman. The father has locked up the little Peter in a room for nine years with the intent to discover the original language of innocence, disappeared after the man acquired the concept of evil after the fall from Eden. Quinn keeps track of everything that is learned in a notebook (common thread that comes in so many novels of Auster).
Instead of trying to hurt his son or Virginia, the old Stillman goes around Manhattan collecting items broken and useless. The aim is to create conditions for a language that finally make the essence of things. Quinn Stillman obsessively follows his walks and record all activities of man in a red notebook. In the confusion and prey to a crisis, he seeks the true detective Paul Auster, but when he finds, he discovers that he is a writer. Auster invited him to dine with and he took the opportunity to illustrate his theory about the true authorship of Don Quixote. At the end of the story
Quinn disappears from the book and the reader discovers that a friend of the austere character of the book, also a writer, Quinn used the manuscript found in the room from which he disappeared for writing City of Glass.
Instead of trying to hurt his son or Virginia, the old Stillman goes around Manhattan collecting items broken and useless. The aim is to create conditions for a language that finally make the essence of things. Quinn Stillman obsessively follows his walks and record all activities of man in a red notebook. In the confusion and prey to a crisis, he seeks the true detective Paul Auster, but when he finds, he discovers that he is a writer. Auster invited him to dine with and he took the opportunity to illustrate his theory about the true authorship of Don Quixote. At the end of the story
Quinn disappears from the book and the reader discovers that a friend of the austere character of the book, also a writer, Quinn used the manuscript found in the room from which he disappeared for writing City of Glass.
Ghosts Ghosts In contrast, it happens that those who are stalking, in turn, feel stalked. The Blue investigator, hired by White (who shows a thinly-veiled disguise: false beard, bushy eyebrows, etc.) is charged with overseeing a man, the Black. As a result of these controls must complete a weekly report to White, who, even weekly, will have a check. Blue was his former colleague as a teacher Brown, now retired to private life after reaching retirement age.
Blue begins stalking him in front of the apartment house of Black, who is always ready to write: red pen in a notebook. The latter has a complicated life: sometimes goes out for shopping to distract the cinema, walking, and often wanders aimlessly in New York austeriana. Blue is more precise in his work: If Black is spying must be a criminal, and this leads him, without success, to follow him everywhere. The long hours which is unsupervised, however, are filled many nebulous thoughts about his past and his own life.
After a year, Blue never calls his wife if only once, however, found no answer to his call. Blue is alone and with Black, and Black is seen and searches. Slowly knows him well, he begins to enjoy the brackets from the activity because they know each other inside out: every movement he known, he knows when and when not to come out, learn all that is useful for the identification in Black. Try an approach with White, but he stanatolo, invites him to not groped more such raids. It also attempts
approaches - failed - with Black, and one day sneaks into his apartment to find out what are sheets that Black was still on his desk. It is thus to discover that they are nothing but reports that he sent to White, then that is nothing but the same Black. Blue feels shadowed and Black faces and called upon to reveal what is in the red notebook that every day Black compiled heavily. Is nothing but the same story that the reader reads, Ghosts.
Blue begins stalking him in front of the apartment house of Black, who is always ready to write: red pen in a notebook. The latter has a complicated life: sometimes goes out for shopping to distract the cinema, walking, and often wanders aimlessly in New York austeriana. Blue is more precise in his work: If Black is spying must be a criminal, and this leads him, without success, to follow him everywhere. The long hours which is unsupervised, however, are filled many nebulous thoughts about his past and his own life.
After a year, Blue never calls his wife if only once, however, found no answer to his call. Blue is alone and with Black, and Black is seen and searches. Slowly knows him well, he begins to enjoy the brackets from the activity because they know each other inside out: every movement he known, he knows when and when not to come out, learn all that is useful for the identification in Black. Try an approach with White, but he stanatolo, invites him to not groped more such raids. It also attempts
approaches - failed - with Black, and one day sneaks into his apartment to find out what are sheets that Black was still on his desk. It is thus to discover that they are nothing but reports that he sent to White, then that is nothing but the same Black. Blue feels shadowed and Black faces and called upon to reveal what is in the red notebook that every day Black compiled heavily. Is nothing but the same story that the reader reads, Ghosts.
The Locked Room
In The Locked Room the protagonist identifies herself to the point in the life of his friend, to the point of marrying the widow and adopted son ... (Wikipedia)
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