Artificial I's

This study explores three works in which the protagonist undertakes to fashion a literary artwork out of himself: Ovid's Ars Amatoria , Kierkegaard's Diary of the Seducer , and Thomas Mann's Felix Krull . For each work, particular attention is paid to the self-conscious interplay between the author's project of book-making and the character's project of self-making, as well as to the effect of ...