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“This is not representative of any of the other detective novels that I’ve talked about. It’s a postmodern collection of novellas by Paul Auster, which focus on the whole idea of mystery and detection, identity and madness. It’s very, very interesting. In the first, a writer gets a phone call from someone trying to call a detective. He takes on the job to follow someone, and as he follows this person through the city, he ends up losing himself completely. The second one is quite similar, in that you have a detective hired to follow someone over years. At some point he realises this person is also observing him—and, again, it dissolves into madness. The third falls along similar line, but for someone like me, who has read a lot of detective fiction, it’s a lot of fun to read something so different.” Read more...
The Best 20th-Century American Detective Novels
Dave Zeltserman, Novelist
