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Yes. Quinn is the central character of the first of the trilogy, City of Glass (which, Chesed, was later adapted into a comic) and he's also referenced in the final part, The Locked Room, though I'd have to dig out my notes to remember where.
Everything Jack Fear says is true and right.
Quinn isn't Auster; in fact, he's emphatically not Auster to my mind. The reader initially suspects he is, because any characters in novels who are writers are tended to be assumed to be personas for the author; this is why when the "Paul Auster Detective Agency" is referenced there's such a jar. When you actually meet "Auster" himself, we see a more striking resemblance to the real Auster - though this Auster is writing a book on Don Quixote; the real Auster, if it were he, would be writing a book called City of Glass, surely. So it's another persona of Auster's.
Incidentally, both "Auster" and Quinn are described in speech by the other or themselves as "the only one in the book" - referring to the telephone directory, obviously, but also the novel itself.
Sorry, that's all a bit hastily splurged and I hope it's of some use... I have quite a good essay on writers within fiction, The New York Trilogy and London Fields kicking around if anyone's interested. |
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