![]() ![]() While Dorst won’t give up his secrets, he was willing to chat with Vulture about the S phenomenon, for those who’ve already read the novel. Even if the communications within S are decidedly analogue - down to the inserts of postcards and a hand-scrawled map on a napkin - the readership response has expanded into the digital world, with websites like the S Files helping lost fans decode the book. 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.M. Written by Doug Dorst (with inspiration from concept creator and “novelrunner” J.J. Fans of S don’t just ask each other if they’ve read the book - they ask each other how they read it. ![]()
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