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And I say "come up with", rather than "written", because one of the conventions challenged is that of authorship.

Jennifer Vineyard, in "Doug Dorst on Writing His Mind-Bending Novel S and Leaving You Completely in the Dark" at Vulture.Abrams, though, has come up with a novel of such structural daring that the first task of the audience is to work out a way of reading it.

It's a labyrinth of story-within-story, especially when you consider the footnotes are ciphers. Along comes an undergrad named Jen who picks up Eric's copy of the book, reads his notes, and starts writing notes to him in the margins as she gets pulled into Straka's work and the mysteries surrounding both him and Eric. Straka, his author, is said not to exist and may be a pseudonym for a number of candidates Eric, a grad student studying Ship of Theseus, is hoping to solve that question of authorship for his dissertation, but he, too, doesn't officially exist, as his university has expunged him. There are issues of identity on all fronts - S, the protagonist in Ship of Theseus, has amnesia, and doesn't know who he is V.M.

Straka's nineteenth and final novel, Ship of Theseus, are two readers who've found each other in the margins. Abrams), the book is a singular experience: Within a worn library copy of fictional author V. Written by Doug Dorst (with inspiration from concept creator and "novelrunner" J.J. don't just ask each other if they've read the book - they ask each other how they read it. Marginalia on title page of Ship of Theseus.Felt bad about keeping the book from you though, since you obviously need it for your work. (Looks like you left in a hurry!) I read a few chapters & loved it. Hey - I found your stuff while I was shelving. If found, please return to workroom B19, Main Library, Pollard State University.This literature-related article is a stub. It is composed of the novel Ship of Theseus by a fictional author, and hand-written notes filling the book's margins as a dialogue between two college students hoping to uncover the author's mysterious identity and the novel's secret plus loose supplementary materials tucked in between pages.

Abrams, presented as a story within a story.

is a 2013 novel written by Doug Dorst and conceived by J.