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Tree of codes / Jonathan Safran Foer.
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Foer, Jonathan Safran, 1977-
Visual Editions, 2010.
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FOE
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Author interview about the book
ISBN:
9780956569219 (trade pbk.)
0956569218 (trade pbk.)
Description:
134, [3] leaves; p. 137-139 ; 22 cm.
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.
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.
Genre:
Altered books.
Experimental
fiction
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Code and cipher stories.
Other authors:
Schulz, Bruno, 1892-1942. Sklepy cynamonowe. English.
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