10 Famous Authors Who Show Up As Characters In Their Own Work
9. Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy
The New York Trilogy is weird - awesome, but undoubtedly strange, and since he's known for his combination of absurdity, existentialism and crime, Auster's cameo makes more than a little bit of sense. Comprised of three separate tales about mysterious urban goings on, Auster pops up in City of Glass, a story about a detective-fiction writer named Daniel Quinn who becomes a private investigator - which sounds a bit like wish fulfilment.
It gets weirder when Quinn reaches a dead-end in a case and attempts to contact the detective known as Paul Auster, the man whose case it was originally supposed to be. Quinn tracks Auster to an apartment where he finds not Paul Auster the detective, but Paul Auster the writer, who claims to have no idea what Quinn is talking about.
I came here looking for Paul Auster, the private detective. The what? Auster laughed, and in that laugh everything was suddenly blown to bits. I' m afraid you've got the wrong Paul Auster.Pretty confusing.