The first contact with the works of Paul Auster I had in 1995 through the comic book adaptation of his story City Glass, published by Bompiani and recently reissued by Coconino Press.
time I was employee of the Italian edition of Batman and one of the drafters of the Dark Knight, David Mazzucchelli, was part of this project of graphic novels with Paul Karasik.
I was so impressed that I went immediately to look for the book, that The New York Trilogy that in addition to City of Glass also has Ghosts and The Locked Room .
The stories appeared in the U.S. between 1985 and 1987 have arrived in Italy by Rizzoli, and then, ten years later, published by Einaudi for the "Supercoralli" and continually reissued under "Super ET.
are three detective stories, unusual and haunting, with memorable anti-heroes and writing a textbook for a New York real and surreal at the same time. Auster is one of the best writers and New Yorkers do not find some in this blog. In City of Glass
the main character is Daniel Quinn, a writer of detective, who gets a call from a stranger who mistook him for the investigator Paul Auster. Needless to say Quinn decides to meet his mysterious interlocutor: Peter Stillman, troubled individual from the past ...
In the second story, Ghosts, the protagonist is a real investigator, that Mr. Blue, who is nominated by his boss, the mysterious Mr. White, to spy on the mysterious Mr. Black ...
Finally, The Locked Room. Here, as in the first episode, the character around which the story is a writer, tracked down by his wife of his old friend, Fanshave, who disappeared mysteriously years ago. Through the manuscripts of his friend, the writer reconstructs the strange life of Fanshave, you will fall in almost replaced but ... a surprise is coming.
stories, in hindsight, are not disconnected from each other. Reading them in a row makes us feel involved in a game of roles not defined (who follow those who spy who, who loves). The noir becomes almost a psychological thriller, the reader is led not only to wonder how it will end, but also to look inside himself, to identify themselves in situations that are most unlikely they reflect on life.
And then there's New York, a beautiful and metaphysics: "New York was an inexhaustible place, a labyrinth of endless steps: and as the exploring, getting to know thoroughly the streets and neighborhoods, the city still left with the the feeling of having perduto".
Trilogia di New York
, Paul Auster, Einaudi, 2005 
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