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I've just been reading his 1987 New York Trilogy. If something can be bizarre and intriguing at the same time, this is it.
People who've reviewed it on Amazon seem puzzled by it.
The term "postmodernist" seems to be applied to it by some. I understand what modernism is; but what do we expect from postmodernist novels?
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New York Trilogy is one of my favourites, he writes so elegantly, so sparely, and you never know where the story is going, I love that.
I think it's to do with his characters.
Perhaps he writes on a theme rather than a subject.
Perhaps it's the mixture of symbolic, imaginary and what is real.
i just love them.
I've read a number of Paul Auster novels because I find him interesting and different. I've loved some of them, and found some of them hard work to decipher what he's trying to say/achieve.
Having said that, whenever I see a Paul Auster book that I haven't read, I always buy it!