María Laura Arce Álvarez is assistant professor of American literature at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

• IntroductionPaul Auster’s Metafiction and Intertextuality in ContextThe Writer and the Typist: City of Glass and “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman MelvilleThe Writer and his Doubles: Ghosts and “William Wilson” by Edgar Allan PoeThe Invisible Writer: The Locked Room and Fanshawe by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Trilogy of Absence: Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy and Samuel Beckett’s Molloy, Malone Dies and The UnnamableTranslating Influence: The New York Trilogy as a Fictionalization of Maurice Blanchot’s The Space of LiteratureAfterword

María Laura Arce Álvarez is assistant professor of American literature at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

• IntroductionPaul Auster’s Metafiction and Intertextuality in ContextThe Writer and the Typist: City of Glass and “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman MelvilleThe Writer and his Doubles: Ghosts and “William Wilson” by Edgar Allan PoeThe Invisible Writer: The Locked Room and Fanshawe by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Trilogy of Absence: Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy and Samuel Beckett’s Molloy, Malone Dies and The UnnamableTranslating Influence: The New York Trilogy as a Fictionalization of Maurice Blanchot’s The Space of LiteratureAfterword

María Laura Arce Álvarez is assistant professor of American literature at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

• IntroductionPaul Auster’s Metafiction and Intertextuality in ContextThe Writer and the Typist: City of Glass and “Bartleby, the Scrivener” by Herman MelvilleThe Writer and his Doubles: Ghosts and “William Wilson” by Edgar Allan PoeThe Invisible Writer: The Locked Room and Fanshawe by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Trilogy of Absence: Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy and Samuel Beckett’s Molloy, Malone Dies and The UnnamableTranslating Influence: The New York Trilogy as a Fictionalization of Maurice Blanchot’s The Space of LiteratureAfterword