Sometimes things get really weird. Sometimes it goes away in a few days, but sometimes it follows you to the very end. The latter happens to the protagonist of Paul Auster's "City of Glass" — a postmodern detective novel that sets to defy all conventions associated with the genre. In my new video I'm trying to break down the elements that make this novel, and the elements that make this novel weirdly magnetic. Watch at your own risk!

The image used in the thumbnail is Albert Dubout "Detective novels" (1939)

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00:00 - Intro
02:02 - The Plot
04:57 - The Detective
07:56 - The Criminal
10:02 - The Victim
10:32 - The Reader
11:41 - The Author