Auster’s novel is pretty short, which helps, but Karasik/Mazzucchelli manage to bring something totally new to the work, without diminishing what makes that novel so exciting. Why sabotage all of that with the insipid introduction? Who needs an introduction to Paul Auster?Īnd for once, it’s a comics adaptation that works. The one mis-step is the introduction by series editor Bob Callahan, which just feels unnecessary and removes something of the mystery from the book.īecause it’s all mystery here - it’s a post-modern mystery novel, with doubled identities, books within books, and a found manuscript. The book is very appealing as an object - it’s the perfect size, with a good design and printing. And certainly the design shouts mid-80s, but there’s subtle tells - the font isn’t Futura, for instance.
When I think about this book, it’s an 80s book in my head. So I’m not going to repeat anything of that stuff here, but just talk about the actual book instead, OK? OK. There’s a long (and, I think, interesting) story behind this, and I wrote about it here. This adaptation was dropped onto an unsuspecting audience in 1995 - by Avon Books, of all people. I remember reading Auster’s New York Trilogy over a couple of days one summer - it was probably in 1988 and I was nineteen? I was absolutely flabbergasted! I thought it was the greatest thing ever, and I’ve continued to buy all of Auster’s books since (and have been disappointed just about every time). Paul Auster’s City of Glass by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli (132x209mm)
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