The picture on the book cover of a nude female Pygmalion embracing the statue of a male torso aptly illustrates the controversial nature of positions on authorship. The book thus enters the current debate, initiated by Roland Barthes in 1968 with his declaration of the Death of the Author and by Michel Foucault the following year in his essay What is an Author? By postulating the “author-function” as a product of socially-determined structures rather than of individuals, structuralism threw into question the notion of human agency and its attendant biographical approach to literature. On that basis Amstutz investigates concepts of authorship that she finds present in the literary works themselves. The question is, “inwiefern literarische Texte selbst das Verhältnis Autorschaft und Werk gestalten” (p. 1). The primary contribution of the book is a study of the nuanced positions on authorship in the works of three authors, namely Robert Musil, Ingeborg Bachmann, and Friederike Mayröcker.