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Article: Auster's City of Glass.(Paul Auster)(Critical essay)
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- The Explicator
- Article date:
- March 22, 2006
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Daniel Quinn, protagonist of Paul Auster's novella City of Glass, is hired as a private investigator by a client who mistakenly believes that he is Paul Auster. When his case becomes too inscrutable, Quinn wonders if the "real" Auster might have any answers, and visits him. Quinn and the "Auster" character discuss the latter's current writing project: an "imaginative reading" that determines the "true" origins of Don Quixote, or rather of "the book inside the book Cervantes wrote, the one he imagined he was writing" (116, 117). In other words, "Auster's" analysis focuses not on the actual novel, but on the text Cervantes claimed he bought in a market and had translated ...
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Transcript: Interview: Paul Auster on "The Brooklyn Follies"
NPR Weekend All Things Considered;
January 15, 2006 ;
700+ words
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