Just got to the final act of Paul Auster's City of Glass and this is genius. I fuckin' kneel.Also, definite inspiration for the final act of Houellebecq's The Map and the Territory, no?
I've read that one and don't remember much about the ending besides the guy creating a language by walking around town or something. I also like the map and the territory, it's the best Houellebeqc. What's your take on the comparison? I'm really curious.
>>25642470Two men pursuing complete destitution and supernatural asceticism in pursuit of a craft. Again, I just only started the final act, but you have the description of Quinn chilling in an alley 24/7 which mirrors the ending of The Map and the Territory where the photographer main character forgets language and takes pictures of moment-by-moment botany. There's a slight chance I'm thinking of the wrong novel, lol.
>>25642443All I remember is that this book has a pretty good take on Don Quixote...which I've forgotten. Something about Cid Hamete Bengali and the fact that Cervantes had to write the text as if it was a translation, but that would be too complicated so Bengali did actually write the text? I don't remember
>>25642632i gotchu1/2
>>256426322/2
>>25642443I don't remember it that well, but I LOVED the New York Trilogy. Auster's greatest gift was his ability to engage in all the same postmodernist/modernist tricks and games without making the reader feel stupid, or feel like the book existed so they could gape at Auster's talent, instead making the reader feel like they were along for the ride and discovering everything with him. City of Glass is the best of the three, but the other two are absolutely worth your time
>>25642653Plus it's the rare combination of literary and a legitimate page-turner.
4am bump
bumping because I'll probably read City of Glass on account of this thread
>>25643843I hope you do, that'll make me 2-for-2 on inspiring at least one anon to read a book I made a thread about (last one was Steinbeck's The Winter of Discontent and they loved it).
