Abstract:Ghosts, the second part of Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy, is generically classified as anti-detective fiction. The dominant setting of the novel, the urban space of New York and the observatory apartment located in it, is endowed with postmodern qualities, which leads to the transformation of the spe cificity of the inve stigation and its de parture from one that is traditional. Whereas, traditionally, in detective fiction the dominant space, be it a locked room or a city, to mention a few, offers the sle… Show more
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