The New York Trilogy
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The New York Trilogy is a series of novels by American writer Paul Auster. Originally published sequentially as City of Glass, Ghosts and The Locked Room, it has since been collected into a single vol
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Cide Hamete Benengeli
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Cide Hamete Benengeli is a fictional Arab Muslim historian created by Miguel de Cervantes in his novel Don Quixote, who Cervantes says is the true author of most of the work. This is a skilful metafic
The New York Trilogy
…writing an article about the authorship of Don Quixote. Auster calls his article an "imaginative reading," and in it he examines possible identities of Cide Hamete Benengeli, the narrator of the Quixote. The second story, Ghosts, is about a private eye called Blue, trained by Brown, who is investigating a man named Black…
Cervantes discusses the found manuscript. Illustration by Ricardo Balaca.