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The Locked Room is the story of a writer who lacks the creativity to produce fiction.

Blue becomes frustrated and loses himself as he becomes immersed in the life of Black. Blue writes written reports to White who in turn pays him for his work. The second story, Ghosts, is about a private eye called Blue, trained by Brown, who is investigating a man named Black on Orange Street for a client named White. Auster calls his article an "imaginative reading," and in it he examines possible identities of Cide Hamete Benengeli, the narrator of the Quixote. Not only does the protagonist Daniel Quinn share his initials with the knight, but when Quinn finds "Paul Auster the writer," Auster is in the midst of writing an article about the authorship of Don Quixote. It explores layers of identity and reality, from Paul Auster the writer of the novel to the unnamed "author" who reports the events as reality, to "Paul Auster the writer", a character in the story, to "Paul Auster the detective", who may or may not exist in the novel, to Peter Stillman the younger, to Peter Stillman the elder and, finally, to Daniel Quinn, the protagonist.Ĭity of Glass has an intertextual relationship with Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote. The first story, City of Glass, features an author of detective fiction who becomes a private investigator and descends into madness as he becomes embroiled in the investigation of a case. The Trilogy is a postmodern interpretation of detective and mystery fiction, exploring various philosophical themes. Originally published sequentially as City of Glass (1985), Ghosts (1986) and The Locked Room (1986), it has since been collected into a single volume. The New York Trilogy is a series of novels by American writer Paul Auster.