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Detective Fiction:
City of Glass
• Detective Fiction by Ani
What is Detective Fiction
• Crime Fiction
• 25% of Fictional writing is Detective Fiction
• Clear and Definite plot
• Loose ends tied up
• Justice is served
History of Detective Fiction
• Father of Detective Fiction:Edgar Allen Poe
• The Search for Truth
• Great Detective Sherlock Holmes
Characteristics of Detective Fiction
• Reader is Involved
• Language
• Armchair Detective
• Don’t-give-up attitude
• Sidekick
Post- Modern Detective Fiction; Paul Auster’s City of Glass
• Background Information by Giselle
Paul Auster
• Born in 1947• Harvard and
Columbia University • Moved to France• Returned to the
States in 1974• Currently lives in
Brooklyn with his Family
“We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.”
Auster’s Work
• 15 Novels Include: Timbuktu, The Red Notebook, The Story of my Typewriter and more.
• Adaptations of Auster’s Work:
The Music of Chance and City of Glass
Sam Messer
The New York Trilogy
• City of Glass(1985)
• Ghosts(1986)
• The Locked Room(1986)
• Metaphysical detective story
• Summarization and Paraphrasing by Charlotte
Protagonist
• Daniel Quinn
• 35 year old Author
• Family loss
• Mystery Novels
• Lives his life through fictional names
Phone Call
• Virginia Stillman
• Creation of Paul Auster
Junior and Senior Stillman
• Peter Stillman Jr. abused as a child
• Peter Stillman Sr. soon to be released
• Language of God
• “Paul Auster” task is to follow Senior after release
• Daniel Quinn questions Virginia Stillman
The Case
• Red Notebook
• Garden of Eden
• Tower of Babel
• “Paul Auster” discovers connections
The Pursuit
• “Paul Auster” follows Peter Stillman Sr.
• Encounters twin
• Records every movement of Stillman Sr.
• TOWER OF BABEL
• Confusing Points by Tyee
Character Map
• Critical and Analytical Interpretation by Emily
Daniel Quinn
• Understands the weight of words
• Changes his identity by naming himself Paul Auster
• Passively accepts his new role after its declaration "... imagine what Work would
have said to the stranger on the phone."
Narrator
• Merely accounts facts without judgment
• Draws attention to short lifetime of words and their true meanings
• “Private Eye”• Encourages readers
to look for more depth in the text.
Peter Stillman, Jr.
• Innocently muses on words and names
• Fascinated with rhyming
• He finds his gibberish "... so pretty and true." Is this the language of God? Something incomprehensible?
Peter Stillman, Sr.
• Page 69
Quinn's Search for Reality
• "Instead of narrowing the distance that lay between him and Stillman, he had seen the old man slip away from him, even as he remained before his eyes." p 105
• Connecting and Linking by Natalie
The Adaptation
• Paul Karasic and David Mazzucchelli
• Less detail
• Condenses original text
• Different Narrative roles
• The adaptation tells and shows, rather than just telling
The Conversation
Blank Thoughts
“Machine-like”
Deep and Dark Places
The Detective
OWE OF BAB
Q and A