'Tree Of Codes': A Novel Cut Out Of Another Novel

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I recently finished Eating Animals by my all-time favorite author, Jonathan Safran Foer. It is a book that I genuinely think that every person should be required to read. But this is beside the point of this post. Upon finishing Eating Animals I was curious if Foer had any new books coming out soon (he also wrote Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, both are personal favorites). After looking on Amazon I discovered what is probably one of the coolest art/literary pieces ever made and I hastily looked for more information about it.

Foer has taken his favorite book, The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Shulz, and has, through erasures (literally cutting out excess words), crafted his own story from its pages. Included in this post is a closes up of some of the pages. Foer's story is called Tree of Codes and it follows the story of a man on his last day of life. As you can imagine, mass producing this book is not something that can be easily done. When I checked Amazon there was one copy in stock being sold for $350--it took a lot of self control to not snatch it up for myself. I'm crossing my fingers that our school's artist book collection will get a copy soon!