Abstract. This article attempts to understand the problem of the narrator in the trilogy of contemporary American writer Paul Auster referring to the literary tradition of voice plurality in the text and reinterpreting the tradition in line with postmodern attitudes. The novels of the trilogy deal with the problem of self-identity, which turns into the problem of semantic structure and calls into question ontologically different categories of author, narrator and reader. The narrating voice multiplies, duplicates, and thus encourages readers to actively engage in the process of creating and deciphering the work.

Key words: postmodernism, novel, storytelling, author, narrator, self-identity, mystification, metaphor