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Author Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-

Title Tree of codes / Jonathan Safran Foer
Published [London] : Visual Editions, 2010

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  810.6 F654 A6/T  AVAILABLE
Description 134 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves; 137-139 ; 22 cm
Summary "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
Notes "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
Subject Schulz, Bruno, 1892-1942. Sklepy cynamonowe. English.
Books in art.
Printing -- England -- London -- 21st century -- Specimens.
Genre/Form Artists' books.
Visual literature.
Conceptual art.
Altered books
Fiction.
Author Die-cut version of: Schulz, Bruno, 1892-1942. Sklepy cynamonowe. English.
ISBN 9780956569219 (paperback)
0956569218 (paperback)