The implied author in Paul Auster's, "City of Glass", Written for Literary Theory

Disintegration of the Vernacular City of Glass presents a new prototype of the typical detective novel. It is greatly concerned with the relationship between the author and characters, but additionally, who is in control in this complex relationship. What can be said then, for the implied author? Auster calls into question the notions of language and identity that transcend the logic of the traditional detective. Contrary to the impulse to order and organize, a course …

…Glass, Auster experiments, in fictional practice with the possibilities of life after the death of the author. Authorizing his own disappearances to explore writing beyond composition. "City of Glass" undermines traditional notions of urban space as a rationally ordered environment. It represents a theoretical standard where it has moved towards reader-response theory and philosophy has moved away from Truth. Between shifting of identity and the deterioration of colloquial speech the novel ultimately ends in ambiguity.