tasneemma

I found this a little irritating yet at the same time it was very readable. It just felt like it was constantly eating itself, the very self conscious inclusion of the actual author as a character, down to including Siri Husvedt and their child to me just served to pull the reader out of the narrative. An intriguing storyline opens City of Glass and then dissolves into nothingness. But maybe that was his intention, it all has the feel of Fight Club, does any of it really happen or is it all in that unnamed narrator's head? Is it a descent into madness are they all Paul Auster????? It's a book that keeps you guessing and asking unanswerable questions long after it's finished, and that's not a bad thing. Over all I'd say its a book about the issues of identity, and the creation and loss thereof that arise with being a writer and writing books. It also felt a tad condescending at times, he would make an allusion, or reference other novels and then in the next breath, paragraph or page explain it as if he didn't trust the reader to pick it up.

2022-11-14 18:06