From award-winning novelist Paul Auster comes the graphic adaptation
of his deeply beloved series, The New York Trilogy, a postmodern take
on detective and noir fiction. In 1994, Paul Auster's City of Glass
was adapted into a graphic novel and became an immediate cult classic,
published in over 30 editions worldwide, excerpted in The Norton
Anthology of Postmodern Fiction. But City of Glass was only the first
novel in a series of books, Auster's acclaimed New York Trilogy, and
graphic novel readers have been waiting for years for the other two
tales to be translated into comics. Now the wait is over. The New York
Trilogy is post-modern literature disguised as Noir fiction where
language is the prime suspect. An interpretation of detective and
mystery fiction, each book explores various philosophical themes. In
City of Glass, an author of detective fiction investigates a murder
and descends into madness. Ghosts features a private eye named Blue,
trailing a man named Black, for a client called White. This too ends
with the protagonist’s downfall. And in The Locked Room, another
author is experiencing writer’s block, and hopes to brake it by
solving the disappearance of his childhood friend. The second two
parts of this trilogy will be appearing in this volume for the very
first time as a graphic novel. Paul Karasik, the mastermind behind the
three adaptations, art directed all three books. City of Glass is
illustrated by the award-winning cartoonist David Mazzucchielli, the
second volume, Ghosts, is illustrated by New Yorker cover artist,
Lorenzo Mattotti, and The Locked Room is adapted and drawn by Karasik
himself. These adaptations take Auster’s sophisticated wordplay and
translate it into comicsplay: both highbrow and lowbrow and immensely
fun reading.
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City of Glass, Ghosts, The Locked Room
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780553387650
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Random House Digital Inc.
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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