Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy
City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room
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- USD 14.99
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- USD 14.99
Descripción editorial
From award-winning novelist Paul Auster comes the graphic adaptation of his deeply beloved series, The New York Trilogy, a postmodern take on detective and noir fiction.
In 1994, Paul Auster's City of Glass was adapted into a graphic novel and became an immediate cult classic, published in over 30 editions worldwide, excerpted in The Norton Anthology of Postmodern Fiction. But City of Glass was only the first novel in a series of books, Auster's acclaimed New York Trilogy, and graphic novel readers have been waiting for years for the other two tales to be translated into comics.
Now the wait is over.
The New York Trilogy is post-modern literature disguised as Noir fiction where language is the prime suspect. An interpretation of detective and mystery fiction, each book explores various philosophical themes. In City of Glass, an author of detective fiction investigates a murder and descends into madness. Ghosts features a private eye named Blue, trailing a man named Black, for a client called White. This too ends with the protagonist’s downfall. And in The Locked Room, another author is experiencing writer’s block, and hopes to brake it by solving the disappearance of his childhood friend. The second two parts of this trilogy will be appearing in this volume for the very first time as a graphic novel.
Paul Karasik, the mastermind behind the three adaptations, art directed all three books. City of Glass is illustrated by the award-winning cartoonist David Mazzucchielli, the second volume, Ghosts, is illustrated by New Yorker cover artist, Lorenzo Mattotti, and The Locked Room is adapted and drawn by Karasik himself. These adaptations take Auster’s sophisticated wordplay and translate it into comicsplay: both highbrow and lowbrow and immensely fun reading.
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This spectacular graphic adaptation of Auster's postmodern trilogy, cowritten by Paul Karasik (How to Read Nancy), unites three tales of lonely men seeking meaning into a distilled portrait of the haunted urban soul. The volume opens with a reissue of David Mazzucchelli and Karasik's 1994 version of City of Glass. New to this edition are Ghosts, drawn by New Yorker cover artist Lorenzo Mattotti (The Crackle of the Frost), and The Locked Room, drawn by Karasik. Quinn, the protagonist of City of Glass, is a widower who writes PI mysteries under a pseudonym, and he sees himself as a "ventriloquist dummy" in this "triad of selves." Mistakenly hired as a PI, Quinn tracks a mad academic whose study of language sends him down an exegetical vortex. In Ghosts, where the art has a more spectral, brushed look and an illustrated novel layout, another metaphysical detective story plays out when investigator Blue is hired by a mysterious man named White to trail a man named Black—who does nothing but read Thoreau and write. It's a bleak puzzle that could keep a lycée's worth of French semioticians happy for a decade. The Locked Room's art style is more subdued. What initially seems to be a simple tale about a man reconnecting with a childhood friend evolves into an existential revelation, with the narrator declaring that life is just "random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose." This long-anticipated volume was well worth the wait. Agents: (for Auster) Carol Mann, Carol Mann Agency; (for Karasik, Mattotti, and Mazzucchelli) Gail Hochman, Brandt & Hochman.
