City of Glass
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City of Glass is a postmodern detective novel by Paul Auster that blends mystery, metafiction, and philosophical inquiry into identity and language.
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| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| City of Glass (graphic novel) | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
metafictional work
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novel ⓘ |
| author | Paul Auster NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| character |
Daniel Quinn
NERFINISHED
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Paul Auster (character) NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Stillman NERFINISHED ⓘ Peter Stillman Sr. NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| explores |
philosophical inquiry into identity
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philosophical inquiry into language ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | United States NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| followedBy | Ghosts NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| genre |
detective fiction
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metafiction ⓘ philosophical fiction ⓘ postmodern literature ⓘ |
| hasAdaptation |
City of Glass (graphic novel)
NERFINISHED
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stage adaptation of City of Glass ⓘ |
| hasISBN | 9780940650387 ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| literaryMovement | postmodernism ⓘ |
| mainCharacter | Daniel Quinn NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| metafictionalDevice |
author as character
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detective story that questions its own form ⓘ |
| narrativePerspective | third-person narration ⓘ |
| notableFor |
blending mystery with philosophical themes
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self-referential narrative structure ⓘ |
| originalFormat | paperback ⓘ |
| originalMedium | print ⓘ |
| pageCount | approximately 200 ⓘ |
| partOf | The New York Trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| precededBy | none (first in The New York Trilogy) ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1985 ⓘ |
| publisher | Sun and Moon Press NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| series | The New York Trilogy NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| setting | New York City ⓘ |
| theme |
identity
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isolation ⓘ language ⓘ reality and fiction ⓘ the instability of meaning ⓘ the nature of authorship ⓘ urban alienation ⓘ |
| titleRefersTo | fragility and opacity of urban life ⓘ |
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City of Glass (graphic novel)