New York Trilogy
(Paul Auster)
Paul Astor, in this pychological mystery, accomplishes two tasks: he pens a drama about a lost husband being sought out by a private eye, andat thesame time, the author illuminates man's identity crisis. When the private eye becomes so focused on the daily habits of the lost victim, he becomes lost in what he is looking for. Moreover, he becomes what he observes. The paradox is an illustration of Heisenburg's UncertaintyPrinciple: the observer who looks for what is lost becomes lost him/herself because one can not detatch himself from the action as the action stems from the observer. Lost to all objectivity, the private eye becomes subjective. He begins to forget who he is, or on a deeper level, he questions who he thought he was. In an abyss this lost identity chaos, the private eye questions his own authenticity, and the novel becomes a frame within a frame: the private eye needs to find himself so that he find his client.
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