Happily, page four gives us a perfect encapsulation of the style, themes and techniques City of Glass employs. Reviewing a graphic novel such as this without ruining it for new readers is a challenge. It’s a complex metafictional mystery with an ironic, post-modern approach and an intertextual relationship to Cervantes Don Quixote – essential reading for anyone who shares my appreciation for Mazzucchelli’s more experimental work. The story starts when writer Daniel Quinn takes a case meant for a detective called Paul Auster, leading to a noirish descent through madness, identity, language and human nature. City of Glass: The Graphic Novel, by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli, is a black and white adaptation of American author Paul Auster’s offbeat and surreal detective novella City of Glass.
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