Examining Paul Auster’s City of Glass (1985), alongside Jean Baudrillard’s theory of simulacra and simulations , this article claims that the City of Glass plays upon the portrayal of the self as simulacra and reveals how, and under what conditions, the self is stolen or lost. The investigation into its disappearance will be given particular attention. Compounding this entanglement are the issues of spatiality and language, with an attempt to demonstrate how far this entanglement corresponds to what Baudrillard calls “the disappearance of the real,” while at the same time working to “problematize the entire notion of representation of reality,” as Linda Hutcheon argues.