Jonathan Safran Foer has been one of my favorite writers of all time for a while. His novel, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close is one of the most beautiful novels I've ever read, and although I haven't finished it yet, I'm prolonging it. It's a novel that you really want to savor, and soak in its genius! I've embarked on reading most, if not all, of his works, because not only is he a wonderful writer, he knows how to blend all sorts of artistic medium into literature, making it more than just a novel. It's what I aspire to in my own writing.
Tree of Codes is Foer's next astounding work of art. A novel of die cuts, formed from within his favorite book, The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz. It's the journey of one character's last day of life; Words cut out of another work to form a story within a story...how magnificent is this concept? I'm brimming over this, because its something to be studied, and marveled at. It blends the art of storytelling with the entirely different art-form of die-cutting. Even more awesome, is that it is the first of it's kind! Bravo, Jonathan!
Here are two videos, one of reader reactions, and an interview with Jonathan Safran Foer:
