![]() As the author undertook the challenge of carving a brand new story from an existing text, Visual Editions and the book’s designer, Sara De Bondt, took the project to printer after printer, all of whom said a book with a different die-cut on every page simply couldn’t be made. With that as a starting point, they explored the physical relationship between pages and how it could be developed to work with a meaningful narrative Safran Foer quite literally began cutting into the pages of The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz. ![]() Visual Editions’ involvement with Jonathan Safran Foer began when he expressed an interest in experimenting with the process of using a metal die to cut the pages. The story of a last day of life, as one character is chased to extinction, is multi-layered with immense, anxious and, at times, disorientating imagery, crossing both a sense of time and place and giving it universal resonance. Inspired to exhume a new story from an existing text, Safran Foer took 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. ![]() Initially deemed impossible to make, the book is a production first-as much a sculptural object a work of masterful storytelling. With a different die-cut on every page, Tree of Codes by bestselling American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, explores previously unchartered literary territory. ![]()
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