The author's use of the author-as-character technique means that he uses his/her autofictional-self. That is to say that the author intentionally uses public elements of his biography in writing fiction. Stressing the words "intentionally" and "public", here, implies that both the author and the readers know that these elements did happen to the author and are known by the readers. However, the bafflement happens when the readers find that what they are reading does not take them anywhere closer to the author, but rather causes nuisance. Instead of quenching the reader's thirst to get under the skin of the author, he/she breadcrumbs them with some basic biographical information to pull their legs and then they find out that they are not reading an autobiography. This author is presenting numerous "what-ifs" instead of the "what has happened". …show more content…
She calls this experimentation "a prosthetic culture" in which "the subject as individual passes beyond the mirror stage of self-knowledge, of reflection of self, into that of self-extension" (3). She further explains:
In adopting/adapting a prosthesis, the person creates (or is created by) a self-identity that is no longer defined by the edict 'I think, therefore I am'; rather, he or she is constituted in the relation 'I can, therefore I am'. In the mediated extension of capability that ensues, the relations between consciousness, memory and the body that had defined the possessive individual as a legal personality are experimentally dis- and re-assembled.