内容(「BOOK」データベースより)
私立探偵ブルーは奇妙な依頼を受けた。変装した男ホワイトから、ブラックを見張るように、と。真向いの部屋から、ブルーは見張り続ける。だが、ブラックの日常に何も変化もない。彼は、ただ毎日何かを書き、読んでいるだけなのだ。ブルーは空想の世界に彷徨う。ブラックの正体やホワイトの目的を推理して。次第に、不安と焦燥と疑惑に駆られるブルー…。’80年代アメリカ文学の代表的作品。
From Publishers Weekly
This is the second novel in the author's New York Trilogy, the first of which, City of Glass, was nominated for the Mystery Writers of America's "Edgar" award. Here, a private eye named Blue is hired by White to follow and report on Black. Blue's problem is that Black does little more than sit at a table in his Brooklyn Heights apartment and write. Months pass and Blue can stand the non-activity no longer. He begins to intervene in Black's life and learns that Black too is a private detective who is reporting on a man who does nothing but sit in a window and write. Finally, Blue breaks into Black's room, beats him severely and steals his pages. Auster, who also writes poetry, begins Blue's tale on the day of his own birth, suggesting, along with the unresolved ending, meanings wider than the story's narrow space and time. Nevertheless, carried along by carefully wrought, unadorned prose, the tale still satisfies.
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