폴 오스터의『뉴욕 삼부작』: 자아에 대한 포스트모던 통찰 = Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy: Postmodern Insight into Self

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This paper aims to identify postmodern insight into self by analyzing Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy.
In “City of Glass” Quinn’s quest for Stillman calls into question the notion of a stable Self. There are the
constant changes and multiple identities in Quinn’s personality as he follows Stillman’s traces. Due to searching
for identity in vain Quinn’s romantic journey can be compared to modernist’s awareness of postmodern self. In
“Ghosts” Blue’s quest for Black is another journey to the insight into Self. Blue also experienced the lose of
Self but has managed to step out his old identity unlike Quinn. Thanks to a sort of double or ghost, Black, he
discovered story about himself as well in Black’s note. In “The Locked Room” unnamed narrator’s quest for
Fanshawe, the writer in the Locked Room, is ambivalent, admiring him while they were young, but later
coming to resent him. Fanshawe’s notebook is the song of modernism. The narrator, unlike Quinn or Blue, has
a life and loved ones to go back to. Obviously Narrator gets rid of Fanshaw’s legacy and that of modernism at
the end of the novel. In conclusion, Paul Auster shows us that Self is not a stable and unique entity but a
fluid concept of changing constantly.