Identity search of Paul Auster's “The New York trilogy”

This work examines the search for identity in the trilogy of the modern American writer Paul Auster, whose postmodern attitudes are implemented in the literary text of the work. The main question, revealed in New York Trilogy , is the question of identity, the search for personality in a changing world. The heroes of the trilogy learn the reality through the prism of their own personality, characterized by such categories as fragmentation and discontinuity. Auster uses and reinterprets the traditional image of the author-narrator, in which the identity of the writer coincides with the image of the author of the work. The most significant aspects of the trilogy are the awareness of the character of his essence and the ability of the creative force to break the convention of traditional forms. Revealing the complex relationship between the author, the narrator and the reader, the article concludes that the search for truth becomes a metaphor for self-knowledge of the individual.