PAUL AUSTER’S CITY OF GLASS: THE WORDLESS WORLD OF SELF AND SUBJECTIVITY

PAUL AUSTER’S CITY OF GLASS: THE WORDLESS WORLD OF SELF AND SUBJECTIVITY

Abstract Through a careful analysis of different elements, City of Glass novel subverts and borrows from the classical whodunit; it more generally explores the function and the place of the self and subject in postmodern fiction. City of Glass stands for an amalgamation of multiplicities at different levels. The embodiment of pluralities can be better observed in the represented subject, which is the main character of the novel. Due to the fact that some characters share common experiences, occupations, ideas, and even names, they can be considered echoes, images, or representations of one body, Quinn ́s body. Such echoes might be either possibilities of his existence, or actual time-related stages of his own life. From that appreciation, Quinn can be considered a multiple subject himself.