Tree of Codes

Tree of Codes

Softcover
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Tree of Codes is a haunting new story by best-selling American writer, Jonathan Safran Foer. 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 told in Jonathan Safran Foer's own acclaimed voice.

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Format
Softcover
Pages
140
Price
149.95 €

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I was lucky i found this book in our local bookstore after looking for it online for some time now. I just bought it yesterday and i am not sure i have figured it out yet. I was looking at it all evening yesterday without actually reading it because it looked so amazing and then i started reading it and couldn't, really. I was confused and it took me a while to figure it out. I finally read through it with just reading one page at a time without looking at the pages behind. Which was a short but beautiful read. I am going to read it again and again, trying to fit in more sentences and words and layers i guess. On the whole it felt more like a poem than a 'book', maybe because it is so short when you just read the few words on each page. I can def. say that i love this though and if you have a chance to look at it, please do! It is a bit more expensive than other paperback novels though, probably because it was not easy to make.

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Das Jonathan Safran Foer ein Vorreiter in Sachen Literatur ist mag inzwischen allgemein bekannt sein, schreckt der Autor weder vor kühnen und kompliziert gestricketen Geschichten über seine jüdische Vergangenheit den 11. September oder vor Sachbüchern über das Essen bzw. Nicht-Essen von Tieren zurück. Mit "Tree of Codes" betritt der Autor allerdings völlig neues Terrain. Tree of Codes ist das Cut-Out eines bestehenden Buches, nämlich "Zimtläden" von Bruno Schulz. Durch das ausschneiden, einzelner Worte oder ganzer Sätze schafft Foer eine neue, poetische Geschichte. Foers neues Werk ist sehr haptisches. Die äußere Form erweckt den Eindruck eines regulären Buches, erst nach dem Aufklappen erkennt man das Labyrinth das sich duch die vielen Löcher gebildet hat. Trotzdem liest man das Buch wie jedes, Seite für Seite, Wort für Wort. Tree of Codes funktioniert nur auf Papier und so scheint Foer der e-Book Branche damit einen regelrechten Arschtritt geben zu wollen. Allein die die äußere Form ist, unabhängig vom Inhalt, somit spejtakulär. Kunst möchte man denken und liegt damit sicher nicht komplett falsch. Foer schafft mit Tree of Codes eine völlig neue (regelrecht avantgardistische) Gattung.

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