The wrong call was the start of this curious book’s first story. How well do you know yourself? How do you see yourself? These might be simple questions but for our characters, a big consequence follows in finding the answer.Īuster decided that detective story would be the form in his novel because of the inspiration he had from a wrong call he had received. It is about the act of detecting which slowly leads to the quest of finding an identity of oneself, the main characters. But the point here is not about the result, not about whodunnit. Each of the three stories has an open-ended ending, which can be quite frustrating. I guess more than the theme, it can also serve as a note in advance for the readers. A detective story is used here as a form to tell stories which theme is ‘learning to live with ambiguity’. Although mystery novel can be said as its genre, the book is, however, more than that. I guess I was guilty of assuming it was so too. What irritates Paul Auster most is when people think that The New York Trilogy is a detective story.
“In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.” ― Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
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