City of Glass

I took these photos a few years ago while I was travelling by bus to Buenos Aires. As the  bus got into de city it drove along the motorway  and through the window I  could see the  contrast between the straight lines of the high and oppressive buildings and the changing and vast sky. I  couldn't help thinking about some of  Paul Auster' s novels I had read before this trip so I grabbed the camera and I started shooting. I  hope you like the photos!

I added some quotes from Paul Auster's books I reccomend you to read.

Have you ever  noticed how the architecture of a place sometimes conditions the way people behave?

I hope you like the pics!

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Buenos Aires. Argentina. Photo by Marilina Tranier

"It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions."
— Paul Auster (Moon Palace)

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Buenos Aires. Argentina. Photo by Marilina Tranier

Buenos Aires. Argentina. Photo by Marilina Tranier

"If the buildings appear solid, anchored in the earth, indestructible, the sky is vast and amorphous, subject to constant turmoil"

 — Paul Auster (New York Trilogy)

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Buenos Aires. Argentina. Photo by Marilina Tranier

Buenos Aires. Argentina. Photo by Marilina Tranier

"I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity."

— Paul Auster (Moon Palace)

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Buenos Aires. Argentina. Photo by Marilina Tranier

"Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the streets, by reducing himself to a seeing eye, he was able to escape the obligation to think, and this, more than anything else, brought him a measure of peace, a salutary emptiness within...By wandering aimlessly, all places became equal and it no longer mattered where he was. On his best walks he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere."

— Paul Auster (City of Glass)


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Buenos Aires. Argentina. Photo by Marilina Tranier

"Every life is inexplicable. No matter how many facts are told, no matter how many details are given, the essential thing resists telling. To say that so and so was born here and went there, that they did this and did that, that they married this person and had these children, that they lived, that they died, that they left behind these books or this battle or that bridge--none of that tells us very much"

— Paul Auster (The New York Trilogy)


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