Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-171.6.183.62-20151211081838/@comment-27204325-20151211113047

^^ I agree that Eto being an author is a metaphor for the tragic narrative of Kaneki's life being written without his knowledge and beyond his control, and that she absolutely represents aspects of the author himself in the book, and behaves like a god-like force to move the plot with faultless omniscience.

But I don't think the Black Goat's Egg was based on Kaneki's life. I don't think she's actually omniscient in the story, and BGE was written sometime before she even knew Kaneki existed, since Aogiri hadn't had their eye on him until the Rize incident. I think the BGE is literally just there for us the reader to draw parallels to, not as evidence of Eto's grand scheme. And I think that her current work is Kaneki. She didn't write a book about him, he is the main actor in the work she's staging right now in the world.