6/24/2023 0 Comments The locked room auster![]() Doubling and mirroring, the writer's overlapping lives increase his isolation and unknowability even to himself and thicken the intrigue. Fanshawe, expecting to die soon, sends these mournful words: ""Writing was an illness that plagued me for a long time, but now I have recovered from it.'' The narrator's obsession with his task grows stealthily upon him: he retraces Fanshawe's development, hoping to ferret out the mystery of his identity and genius, only to find that each man exists within the other (``he was inside me day and night''). He is to oversee the publication of Fanshawe's waywardly brilliant works, marry his deserted wife and reconstruct Fanshawe's life in order to write his biography. ![]() The narrator here gets a summons from Sophie, the wife of his boyhood friend Fanshawe, who has vanished mysteriously, and then from Fanshawe himself. ![]() In this final volume of his haunting New York Trilogy (City of Glass and Ghosts each representing different aspects of the same story), poet and novelist Auster deepens his exploration of the writer's mind. ![]()
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