Girl Imagined by Chance

The novel is composed of twelve chapters, each of which is preceded by a photograph. In other words, its structure suggests a single roll of film. Girl Imagined by Chance explores the nature of photography, thereby raising questions about the simulated and the real, the mediatization of consciousness, originality, and the construction of identity. It examines the way images both give rise to and complicate memory. In this way, it is indebted to such theoretical works as Jean Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation and Roland Barthes's Camera Lucida, allusions to both of which appear in its pages.