Paul Auster's City of Glass: The graphic novel

In adapting Paul Auster s postmodern detective story City of Glass as a graphic novel, Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli succeeded in producing a visual translation of an often non-visual text. Focussing on Auster s text rather than Auster s story, it is argued, the artists make inventive use of visual metaphors, visual styles, and comic conventions to translate Auster s words into pictures. The text s investigation into, and interrogation of, language is brought to bear on the comic version s own visual language, and City of Glass: The Graphic Novel emerges as valuable source material for a future poetics of comics.