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Genre/Form: | Experimental fiction, American Die cutting artists' books (books) Experimental fiction Artists' books Altered books Livres d'artistes Specimens Spécimens |
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Named Person: | Bruno Schulz |
Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jonathan Safran Foer; Bruno Schulz; Visual Editions, |
ISBN: | 9780956569219 0956569218 |
OCLC Number: | 706462979 |
Notes: | Artist's book with a unique die-cut on every page of the story. "Publisher's note: In order to write Tree of codes, the author took an English language edition of Bruno Schulz's The street of crocodiles and cut into its pages, carving out a new story"--Title page verso. "Die-cut pages design by Sara De Bondt studio. Design assistance by Nina Klein. Cover and title pages design copyright gray318. Printed by die Keure in Belgium. Die-cut by Cachet in The Netherlands. Hand-finishing by Beschutte Werkplaats Ryhove in Belgium. Bound by Hexspoor in The Netherlands"--Title page verso. Video showing the production of the book is available at the publisher's Web site. |
Description: | 134 leaves, 2 unnumbered leaves, pages 137-139 ; 22 cm |
Responsibility: | Jonathan Safran Foer. |
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Abstract:
"With a different die-cut on every page, Tree of codes explores previously uncharted literary territory. Initially deemed impossible to make, the book is a first--as much a sculptural object as it is a work of masterful storytelling. Tree of codes is the story of an enormous last day of life--as one character's life is chased to extinction, Foer multi-layers the story with immense, anxious, at times disorienting imagery, crossing both a sense of time and place, making the story of one person's last day everyone's story. Inspired to exhume a new story from an existing text, Jonathan Safran Foer has taken his favorite book, The street of crocodiles, by Polish-Jewish writer Bruno Schulz, and used it as a canvas, cutting into and out of the pages, to arrive at an original new story told in [the author's' own acclaimed voice"--Publisher's description.
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