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the novel. It is characterized by fragmentation and these fragmentations can stand on their own which is contrary to Aristotle’s concept of order in the novel. For instance, City of Glass can stand on its own even if it is only part of The New York Trilogy. The story can start anywhere and end anywhere. Auster’s story “branches out in all directions, without a beginning, middle or end like some structureless 'rhizome'” and it actually reflects the typical the “postmodern 'central emptiness under the

“The Sky Inside” by Clare B. Dunkle is a slightly future dystopian novel set in a post-apocalyptic world. People were starving, sick, and dying; so the government decided to have them compete for a better life. They staged game shows that would enable the winners to be moved into a completely safe, structured, dome, where they would never fear disease or war again. The losers, however, found a much different fate in starvation. Fast forward a few decades, and the grandchildren of the original inhabitants

Prof. Dr. Herzogenrath Diana Burdeos Matriculation No. Take-home essay TASK: Describe the different concepts of prelapsarian and postlapsarian language in the 'City of Glass'. 1. Introduction 1.1 Plot Summary 2. Postlapsarian Concepts in 'City of Glass' 2.1 Daniel Quin 2.2 Peter Stillman Jr. 2.3 New York 3. Prelapsarian concepts in 'City of Glass' 3.1 Stillman Sr. 1. Introduction The significance of language is a broad theme in the 'Çity of Glass'. The detective fiction novel

The New York Triology: City of Glass By Paul Auster City of Glass is a novel written by Paul Auster in 1985, and its one of the stories included in the series of novels The New York Trilogy (1987). One of the essential themes that recur in many of Austers works is the search for identity and personal meaning, and this is exactly one of the main elements of City of Glass. It deals with this detective writer, who descends into madness when he becomes a private investigator himself by mistake. In the

Baz Luhrmann, on completing the, “red curtain trilogy” has earned much success, which can be traced from Luhrmann’s evolution of cinematic techniques as well as philosophy of cinema. This essay will examine Luhrmann’s use of postmodern film techniques, by analyzing the, “red curtain trilogy”. From Strictly Ballroom’s, “flattening of affect” as Scott’s rigid false perception of winning the San Pacific Ballroom dance completion. To Romeo + Juliet’s multi-voiced narratives. Climaxing to The Great Gatsby’s

The Scissor Sharpener There were times when this Scissor Sharpener who was a small dwarfed-like man with a hunchback strangely was on one side of his back, he drove what looked like to me was a very tiny gray van, thinking this was made for small people, he would shout out if you needed anything sharpened? The vision I have has never left me, I will always remember this from his tiny little van, he would open the back doors to reveal a grinding wheel; he would bend over and peer to look at you with

The Locked Room is the third part of The New York Trilogy published in 1986 by Paul Auster. In this novel, the narrator, a thirty-year-old writer, is propelled precipitously into his past when his long-lost childhood friend, Fanshawe, disappears and leaves him with a fastidious responsibility. Therefore, the writer takes on the task of reviewing a series of poems and novels written by his missing friend during his life. Quickly, he becomes obsessed by the search for Fanshawe and devotes all his

Moreover, such is Quinn's degradation (not only physical but also mental) that the character does not recognize himself when he sees his reflection in the glass of a shop window and he is incapable of remembering him as he used to be few months ago because he has become a tramp: "he did not recognize the person he saw there as himself. He thought that he had spotted a stranger in the mirror, and in that first moment he turned around sharply to see who it was" (City of Glass, pg. 132). Nevertheless

City of Glass the novel written by Paul Auster and its comic adaptation by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli have ways that they are the same and ways they are different. The part of both books I am going to focus on is from the time the main character, William Wilson a.k.a Quinn, goes to the train station to keep an eye on the elderly Peter Stillman on behalf of Virginia Stillman to the time where Quinn loses sight of Peter Stillman. There are several similarities as well as differences that I

Title: The Way of Shadows Author: Brent Weeks. I have not read any other books by him Genre: The Way of Shadows is a fiction book. I do not typically read these kind of books, but i did like reading this book. Characters: Azoth is the main character who is poor and lives in the warrens with his friends Jarl and Doll Girl and their guild the Black Dragons. The Guild Fist Rat beats him and other people in the guild. Azoth doesn't want to be scared and wants to be a wetboy. He tries to become an