Tree of codes @ Visual editions

Tree of codes é um novo livro de Jonathan Safran Foer – autor de Tudo se ilumina (que virou filme) e Extremamente alto e incrivelmente perto (adoro esse título).

Trata-se de um livro-escultura, elaborado em parceria com a Visual editions, onde cada página foi recortada com moldes diferentes, característica que tornou sua produção um grande desafio técnico. Além disso, a própria narrativa foi “esculpida”, ou recortada, a partir de um outro texto já existente, tornando o trabalho ainda mais interessante.

Foto do livro 'Tree of codes'
Foto do livro 'Tree of codes'

Tree of Codes, a new book by Jonathan Safran Foer, is as much a sculptural object as it is a work of masterful storytelling. With the story literally carved out of another book, Tree of Codes has a different die-cut on every single page. Telling the haunting story of “an enormous last day of life”, it is a book that looks every bit like it feels: unlike anything else.

Our early conversations with Jonathan Safran Foer about Tree of Codes started when Jonathan said he was curious to explore and experiment with the die-cut technique. With that as our mutual starting point, we spent many months of emails and phone calls, exploring the idea of the pages’ physical relationship to one another and how this could somehow be developed to work with a meaningful narrative. This led to Jonathan deciding to use an existing piece of text and cut a new story out of it. Having considered working with various texts, Jonathan decided to cut into and out of what he calls his “favourite book”: The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz.

As Jonathan began to carve out his story, we started doing our production homework and literally got turned down by every printer we approached – their stock line being “the book you want to make just cannot be made”. Thankfully, we found Die Keure in Belgium who relished the challenge of making a book with a different die-cut on every page.

A fabricação do livro Tree of codes

Over a year of writing, cutting and proto-typing later, comes Tree of Codes, a haunting new story by Jonathan Safran Foer cut from Bruno Schulz’s words.

The book is as much a sculptural object as it is a work of masterful storytelling: here is an “enormous last day of life” that looks like it feels.

As reações de algumas pessoas diante do livro pronto

Mais informações sobre o livro Tree of codes no site da Visual Editions.

Escrito por em 15 de abril de 2011
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