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Double Game / Sophie Calle, with the participation of Paul Auster
Books
FA.B131.3051
293 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 20 cm
1999
2007
Hardcover book. Commercially printed. 2007 edition. Originally published 1999. Artists' book with appropriated sections of Paul Auster's 1992 novel, Leviathan.
"The Rules of the Game
In his novel, Leviathan, Paul Auster thanks me for having authorized him to mingle fact with fiction. And indeed, on pages 65 to 74 of his book, he uses a number of episodes from my life to create a fictive character named Maria, who then leaves me to live out her own story. Intrigued by this double, I decided to turn Paul Auster’s novel into a game and to make my own particular mixture of reality and fiction"--Front matter.
"The Rules of the Game
In his novel, Leviathan, Paul Auster thanks me for having authorized him to mingle fact with fiction. And indeed, on pages 65 to 74 of his book, he uses a number of episodes from my life to create a fictive character named Maria, who then leaves me to live out her own story. Intrigued by this double, I decided to turn Paul Auster’s novel into a game and to make my own particular mixture of reality and fiction"--Front matter.