Auster, un americano en París

Paul Auster decribe Paris en el texto "The Locked Room" que forma parte de La Trilogía de Nueva York. Un canapé ideal para comenzar a dispersarse.

«Things felt oddly bigger to me in Paris. The sky was more present than in New York, its whims more fragile. I found myself drawn to it, and for the first day or two I watched it constantly - sitting in my hotel room an studying the clouds, waiting for something to happen. These were northern clouds, the dream clouds that are always changing, massing up into huge grey mountains, discharging brief showers, dissipating, gathering again, rolling across the sun, refracting the light in ways that always seem different. The Paris sky has its own laws, and they function independently of the city below. If the buildings appear solid, anchored in the earth, indestructible, the sky is vast and amorphos, subject to constant trumoil ...»