This thesis examines contemporary French artist Sophie Calle's book Double Game and American author Paul Auster's novel Leviathan . Auster borrows Calle's projects for Maria, an artist character in his novel, and Calle then borrows Auster's novel for her projects. My study examines Double Game and Leviathan focusing on the moments at which authors and texts intertwine. By exploring literary constructs of authorship and the author's relationship to the text, I concentrate on Auster's and Calle's self-conscious play with their roles of and as 'author' and 'subject'---continually reinventing and repositioning their identity in relation to their fictional narratives. I expose how Calle's and Auster's authorial games disrupt the stability and fixity of identity by exploring the possibilities of a shifting plasticity that is always already "under-erasure." Authorship, representation and the structure of writing is deconstructed to expose the fiction(s) of identity.
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