![]() ![]() ![]() There is, however, “ a certain coherence in the narrative discourse, a neo-realistic approach and a show of responsibility for social and moral aspects going beyond mere metafictional and subversive elements“, which distinguish him from a “traditional” postmodern writer. ![]() This may classify Auster as a postmodern writer whose works are influenced by the “classical literary movement” of American postmodernism through the 1960s and 70s. “Ostensibly presented as detective fiction, the stories of The New York Trilogy have been described as “meta-detective-fiction”, “anti-detective fiction”, “mysteries about mysteries”, a “strangely humorous working of the detective novel”, “very soft-boiled”, a “metamystery” and a “mixture between the detective story and the nouveau roman”. It is made up of three stories City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room which had been published separately and then were combined to make this famous volume. This has always been one of those cool books ever since it was published back in the 1980s. ![]()
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