The stories are also about writing – actually I would call Auster a 'writer's writer' if I had to describe him with two words. It's also about his writings, that he leaves behind to be managed by his boyhood friend. The Locked Room, is about Fanshawe who leaves his wife and yet to be born baby and disappears. For Blue, normally a man of action, this is hard and slowly he is forced to look inwards. All Blue has to do is watch and watch and watch. Ghosts, is about a detective, Blue who is hired to spy on Black, by a man named White. Trying to become the character from his own detective stories, he loses touch with his own reality and at the same time he loses touch with the case and himself.

The City of Glass is about a detective story writer Quinn who ends up doing detective work himself.

I guess that every reader reads his or her own meaning in the stories, but to me they are mostly about loneliness and about disappearing into yourself. What these stories are really about is something entirely else. Actually they are not detective stories at all – calling them detective stories is like calling Caviar 'Fish Eggs', it may be true, but it doesn't tell the real story. The NY trilogy consists of three stories City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room – all of them are, on their very surface detective stories, but if you scratch just a tiny bit further, than the surface you will find something entirely different. And then joy, joy, joy, my brother brought me this book and Mr. I saw him on TV a few months ago, he read from this book and I was deeply fascinated – the way the words flowed and the richness of his voice, gripped me deeply. This is the first book that I've read by Poul Auster. The New York Trilogy is a collection of 3 stories by Paul Auster.

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