P. Auster, The New York Trilogy ("City of Glass"): Urban Space and the Postmodern
P. Auster, The New York Trilogy ("City of Glass"): Urban Space and the Postmodern

Summary/Abstract: In his 1987 novel City of Glass, Paul Auster, one of the widely recognized contemporary American writers, deals with the contemporary issues of identity construction, language, and the impact of space on the shaping of personality. City of Glass asks what it means to exist in a space such as the modern megalopolis and shows how an overcrowded city such as New York can turn into a desert, depending on the characters’ states of mind. The action of the novel also presents space as a readable text, and, in turn, the text as a space to be explored.

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