7/5/2023 0 Comments Tree of codes![]() The book has a broad appeal: to both literary audiences, intrigued by Safran Foer's new way of writing and to design and art audiences who will revel in the book's remarkable and unique visual experience. As one character's life is chased to extinction, Safran 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. Tree of Codes is the story of 'an enormous last day of life'. It took all of 30 minutes to read, as each page holds no more than 20 words, and most hold fewer. The prose itself is beautiful- more poem than novel for sure. ![]() I found that slightly lifting each page as I was reading it worked much better. Inspired to exhume a new story from an existing text, Jonathan Safran Foer has taken his favourite 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 Safran Foer's own acclaimed voice. 'Tree of Codes' is as much about the visual experience as it is the letters and punctuation on the page. Initially deemed impossible to make, the book is a first - as much a sculptural object as it is a work of masterful storytelling. With a different die-cut on every page, Tree of Codes explores previously unchartered literary territory. ![]() ![]() Tree of Codes, is a haunting new story by best-selling American writer, Jonathan Safran Foer. ![]()
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