The Book of Giants: The Author as Curator between Divine and Artificial Agency

Literature is increasingly created in collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence. What does this co-creation mean for the role of the literary author? To explore this question, I turn to the ancient Book of Giants, a collection of fragmentary texts from a period in which stories were not attributed to a single author, but to divine inspiration. In these texts, boundaries are crossed: between human and divine, between original and transmission, between author and narrator. By analysing these transgressions, I examine how shared authorship functioned in this corpus. These insights form the framework for a study in which I investigate agency within the act of creative writing, both in my own practice and through a comparative experiment. In doing so, I map the decisions taken during the writing process, with and without artificial intelligence. In this way, I analyse to what extent and in which ways the role of the author today shifts towards that of a curator within a collaboration between human and machine. The project connects literary theory with artistic practice and develops possible frameworks for contemporary forms of co-authorship.