Postmodernist Elements In City Of Glass And In The Skin Of A Lion
City of Glass by Paul Auster and In the Skin of a Lion by Michael Ondaatje are two completely different novels that have certain features in common. Both novels are postmodernist fiction and they both evolve around a big city with a main character that is in search of his identity.
Quinn, the main character in City of Glass, is an author who takes on different identities while he at the same time goes on a quest for his own identity. This is a postmodernist element which has to do with the postmodernist view of people, i.e. that people and cities are a construction made by humans (Sjöstrand). The city itself plays an important part in the story, if not the most important part. The city of New York is portrayed as a protagonist in the novel. Quinn walks through the city as if it is a big maze and while walking he becomes one with the city. His journey in New York further strengthens the fact that Quinn is in search of his own identity. Throughout the story the reader gets the......
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