Book Report of a Paul Auster Book need Help

Gast Daniel · Gast

Nabend Leute. Ich hab nen kleinen Book Report über New York Trilogy verfasst. Aber ich bin mir nicht sicher ob das letzte Stück fehlerfrei ist.
Es währe nett wenn ihr Mahl nen Blick drauf werfen könntet wegen der Fehler :-(.

Characters

While the minor characters are just flat stereotypes, the protagonists of the three novels are always round and complex characters. This is because the novels are focused on the main character who always represents a kind of detective. The story grows out of the detectives mind. Shadowing boring Persons he tries to see things that aren’t there which causes him getting that possessed of his mission that he forgets everything around him: his social contacts, his former habits, his look, his nutrition.

‘Remarkable as it seems, no one ever noticed Quinn. It was as though he had melted into the walls of the city. The problems of housekeeping and material life occupied a certain portion of each day. For the most part, however, Quinn had time on his hands. Because he did not want anyone to see him, he had to avoid other people as systematically as he could.’

Fact and fiction become increasingly difficult to distinguish reading the book gets more and more confusing. The author stresses this effect by changing narrator and point of view all the time.

Style

As already said the three novels were published separately standing for their own. But by reading the book, it’s noticeable that the novellas are linked in some way. For instance there are a lot of parallels like the device of writer or the symbol of a red notebook.
In the end the narrator even shows that he is aware of the too other novels saying:’ these three stories are finally the same story, but each one represents a different stage in my awareness of what it is about’.
The complexity of the novel lies primarily in its structure for the reason that the various strands of narrative which are often reaching into each make it difficult so say with confidence what is reality and what is fiction. The book gets more and more confusing. The author stresses this effect by changing narrator and point of view all the time.

The whole trilogy is dealing with surrealism. Paul Auster creates a world of mazes and parallels by telling the same story in completely different ways. The New York trilogy makes us understand that there is a transition between reality and fiction and that reality is just a matter of perspective.

Schonmal im Vorraus vielen dank für eure Hilfe.

Daniel