Adaptations Final

Detective Fiction:

City of Glass

• Detective Fiction by Ani

What is Detective Fiction

• Crime Fiction

• 25% of Fictional writing is Detective Fiction

• Clear and Definite plot

• Loose ends tied up

• Justice is served

History of Detective Fiction

• Father of Detective Fiction:Edgar Allen Poe

• The Search for Truth

• Great Detective Sherlock Holmes

Characteristics of Detective Fiction

• Reader is Involved

• Language

• Armchair Detective

• Don’t-give-up attitude

• Sidekick

Post- Modern Detective Fiction; Paul Auster’s City of Glass

• Background Information by Giselle

Paul Auster

• Born in 1947• Harvard and

Columbia University • Moved to France• Returned to the

States in 1974• Currently lives in

Brooklyn with his Family

“We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are the ones who lose that thread.”

Auster’s Work

• 15 Novels Include: Timbuktu, The Red Notebook, The Story of my Typewriter and more.

• Adaptations of Auster’s Work:

The Music of Chance and City of Glass

Sam Messer

The New York Trilogy

• City of Glass(1985)

• Ghosts(1986)

• The Locked Room(1986)

• Metaphysical detective story

• Summarization and Paraphrasing by Charlotte

Protagonist

• Daniel Quinn

• 35 year old Author

• Family loss

• Mystery Novels

• Lives his life through fictional names

Phone Call

• Virginia Stillman

• Creation of Paul Auster

Junior and Senior Stillman

• Peter Stillman Jr. abused as a child

• Peter Stillman Sr. soon to be released

• Language of God

• “Paul Auster” task is to follow Senior after release

• Daniel Quinn questions Virginia Stillman

The Case

• Red Notebook

• Garden of Eden

• Tower of Babel

• “Paul Auster” discovers connections

The Pursuit

• “Paul Auster” follows Peter Stillman Sr.

• Encounters twin

• Records every movement of Stillman Sr.

• TOWER OF BABEL

• Confusing Points by Tyee

Character Map

• Critical and Analytical Interpretation by Emily

Daniel Quinn

• Understands the weight of words

• Changes his identity by naming himself Paul Auster

• Passively accepts his new role after its declaration "... imagine what Work would

have said to the stranger on the phone."

Narrator

• Merely accounts facts without judgment

• Draws attention to short lifetime of words and their true meanings

• “Private Eye”• Encourages readers

to look for more depth in the text.

Peter Stillman, Jr.

• Innocently muses on words and names

• Fascinated with rhyming

• He finds his gibberish "... so pretty and true." Is this the language of God? Something incomprehensible?

Peter Stillman, Sr.

• Page 69

Quinn's Search for Reality

• "Instead of narrowing the distance that lay between him and Stillman, he had seen the old man slip away from him, even as he remained before his eyes." p 105

• Connecting and Linking by Natalie

The Adaptation

• Paul Karasic and David Mazzucchelli

• Less detail

• Condenses original text

• Different Narrative roles

• The adaptation tells and shows, rather than just telling

The Conversation

Blank Thoughts

“Machine-like”

Deep and Dark Places

The Detective

OWE OF BAB

Q and A