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Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel, Tree of Codes, is an unusual work. As opposed to creating a novel from scratch, Foer takes his “favorite book,” The Street of Crocodiles by the Polish-Jewish writer, Bruno Schulz, and cuts away that text to create a new novel. It is a unique idea and raises the philosop...
I'm not giving the book a rating because I didn't read the whole thing, but I wanted to talk about the 30 or so pages I did read, maybe give some curious people a general idea of the book.There's no denying this book looks awesome. It is definitely a work of art just in the mere printing, cutting wo...
A whip-smart, funny, and smart-ass novel wrapped up in a form-breaking package. Visual Editions, one of my favorite publishing houses, has finally done a book that's actually a STORY and they've managed to shatter your preconceptions of the novelistic form yet again. It's not going to be for every...
Foer here uses die-cut pages a form of collage/assemblage to produce a story from within a story--"a dream that The Street of Crocodiles might have had," as he says in his afterword. It's not only a dream of that novel, but a dream of the dream, with cut-outs framing full or partial words and phrase...
Foer’s is a bold experiment and a great work from an artistic and design perspective. It should have been done in hardcover, because more than anything this book will be an objet d’art, something to remark at on the shelf, the coffee table. As literature, I’m not so sure. There is compelling imagery...
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