Bruno Schulz
- (text by) Robbin Ami Silverberg
- (featured artist) Jonathan Safran Foer
- (featured artist)
Pages: 355pp Size: 196mm Binding: Paperback Language: English
Sub-type: Fiction
Place publication: London and New York Publisher: Penguin Classics
Additional notes: This text was used by Jonathan Safran Foer and Robbin Silverberg in their altered books.
See: Tree of Codes: GB/13851; Tree of Codes (Safer Code): GB/15644; Against the Blind: GB/31958.
Reference note: Tree of Codes is an artwork, in the form of a book, created by Jonathan Safran Foer, and published in 2010. To create the book, Foer took Bruno Schulz's book The Street of Crocodiles and cut out the majority of the words.
Tree of Codes is an artwork, in the form of a book, created by Jonathan Safran Foer, and published in 2010. To create the book, Foer took Bruno Schulz's book The Street of Crocodiles and cut out the majority of the words. The publisher, Visual Editions, describes it as a "sculptural object."[1] Foer himself explains the writing process as follows: "I took my favourite book, Bruno Schulz’s Street of Crocodiles, and by removing words carved out a new story".
Due to the physical difficulties involved in printing a book where most of the words have been cut out, Foer stated that he had to contact several different publishers before finding one who was willing to print it. The only printing office who could do the job was die Keure, from Belgium. He also said that due to the way the book had to be bound, it could not be produced in a hardcover edition.