Tree of Codes
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"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."--T.p. verso.
"With a different die-cut on every page, Tree of Codes explores previously unchartered 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 disorientating 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 ..."--Publisher description.
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PUBLISHED
[London] : Visual Editions, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 139 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780956569219
0956569218
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Schulz, Bruno, 1892-1942.
SUBJECTS
Schulz, Bruno, -- 1892-1942.
Artists' books.
Books in art.
Printing -- London -- 21st century -- Specimens.
Altered books -- England.
Artists' books -- England.