Doubles- jeux

Sophie Calle
Doubles- jeux

Photographs: Sophie Calle

Publisher: Actes Sud

Year: 1998

Price: 75 €

Comments: In a box, 7 numbered volumes, and one undunmered, 19,5 x 10 cm, color photographs. First edition, 1998. All volumes show edgewear. Box in good condition with edgewear as well, and a bump at the Botton right corner. This box gathers 8 boolklet numbered from 1 to 7, the "Carnet" is in two parts with one notebook.

In Leviathan, Paul Auster thanks Sophie Calle for allowing him to mix reality with fiction. Between pages 84 and 93 of his story, he uses certain episodes from his life to create a fictional character called Maria, who then leaves the artist to follow her own story.

Seduced by this double, Sophie Calle decided to play with Paul Auster's novel, mixing reality and fiction in her own way.

In Leviathan, Maria undergoes the same rituals as the artist. But Paul Auster has slipped his own rules of the game into the portrait of his character. In order to get closer to Maria, Sophie Calle has decided to obey the book. The author imposes on her creature a chromatic diet consisting of food of a single colour per day.

- From the publisher

This box gathers 8 boolklet numbered from 1 to 7, the "Carnet" is in two parts with one notebook. It includes : De l’obéissance, Le Rituel d’anniversaire, Les Panoplies, À suivre…, L’Hôtel, Le Carnet d’adresses (in two volumes) et Gotham Handbook.