![]() ![]() So I took notes during the second reading, jotting down phrases and sentences that seemed to connect the three pieces, hoping to find clues that would help me understand The New York Trilogy as one work instead of three. And then there is the name Stillman, again in both the first and last parts of the trilogy. The feeling gnawed at me, especially with the emphasis on the red notebook at the end of The Locked Room, the same-colored notebook from City of Glass. ![]() For the hunch is not only that the stories are related thematically or in their ultimate message or outcomes – they most certainly are – but that they represent a single, cohesive work rather than three repetitive novellas. The statement is vague and somewhat obvious. This even before the narrator of The Locked Room throws out this bone late in the work: “These three stories are finally the same story, but each one represents a different stage in my awareness of what it is about.”Īs a reader, I wanted to feel triumphant but didn’t. ![]() There is the sneaking suspicion reading The New York Trilogy, Paul Auster’s collection of short novels, that the works are related. ![]()
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