20 Aug 2004

New York Trilogy: Ghosts - by Paul Auster

There are many similarities in this story to City of Glass: it starts off appearing to be a mystery with a private detective at the heart and changes into a psychological study [I think]. I confess that I lost the point of the story after a while.

Certain stylistic devices were also applied, like the theme that all the characters' names were colours. And, at the very end the narrator talks directly to the reader.

I think that I never empathised at all with the main character, Blue, and never really understood his actions at all.

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