About this title: Double Game and The Gotham Handbook are, together, the first major publication in English on the work of French artist Sophie Calle, yet this two-volume set is in no way an ordinary monograph. In fact, it takes the form of a double jeu, a 'double game', between the work of Sophie Calle and the fiction of Paul Auster. In his 1992 novel Leviathan, Auster based aspects of his fictional artist "Maria" on Sophie Calle, and thanks her for allowing "to mingle fact with fiction". In the opening chapters of Double Game, Calle reverses this premise and lives out elements of Maria's story to combine ...
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Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Violette Editions, London
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9781900828062ISBN:1900828065
Description: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. A Near Fine copy in pictorial paper-covered boards and cloth spine. The book itself is Fine, but the ribbon tie bound at the spine is a bit wrinkled. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Violette, London, England
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9781900828062ISBN:1900828065
Description: Very good, with no dust jacket (as issued). Boards. 29cm, 298pp. Photos by Calle; prose by Auster. Mutual thanks & copyright notice pasted into book after dedication page (to Frank Gehry); Paul Auster's Leviathan pasted in following Contents. In printed boards, with ribbon tie. read more
Edition: First edition
Binding: cloth backed paper covered boards with a ribbon tie
Publisher: Violette Editions,, London:
Date Published: 1999.
ISBN-13:9781900828062ISBN:1900828065
Description: 1/2" split at top front hinge, otherwise fine condition, no dustwrapper as issued. Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout, tipped excerpt from Paul Auster's Leviathan, inscribed on the title page by the artist, text in English, 293pp, quarto. read more
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