A review by lit_terary
Trilogia di New York by Paul Auster

3.0

Paul and I have an awkward relationship; we don't often see eye to eye and we don't understand each other. However, sometimes I feel a weird connection between us and that little spark is what compels me to always give it another a try.

It's hard not to cut this book and judge the three parts independently, mostly because I felt so different about each story. "City of Glass" was interesting, absurd, almost like a fever-dream; "Ghosts" I didn't like, it was lost on me; "The Locked Room" I genuinely liked, it was more up my alley, I suppose. The three stories are clearly and weirdly interlaced but I won't go into the specifics because it's something the reader has to piece together in the end.

The major underlying theme of the trilogy is the derangement or the loss of one's identity. Some lose themselves, others fade away, others blend into somebody else. In short, these three stories depict the protagonists' descent into madness: you see them as they lose the way, you watch their psyche spiral out of control and all of this gives off a sense of vertigo, of disorientation.

Overall, I get it but I also don't, and that's what I'm meant to feel every time I read something by Paul Auster.