This tradition notwithstanding, Jessica Pressman correctly detects in some contemporary novels anxiety about the continued life of books and a desire to reassert the book's authority in the face of the exponential expansion of the Web and the ongoing conversion of books into digitized texts, including the several million now available at Google Books and other online venues. Much has been written about the end of books, but, as Alan Liu observes, they have been deconstructed almost from the beginning, from the remixing of Bible excerpts according to the liturgical calendar to the experimental fiction of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy to Raymond Queneau's Cent mille milliards de poèmes (“End” 509-11). Indeed, print books are now so interpenetrated with digital media at every stage of their production that they may more appropriately be considered an output form of digital texts than a separate medium. It is a book that gives you words, lots of them, more than you should know, and it literally spits them at you, without context, without clear reason. The epochal shift from print to digital texts has been under way for some time. It is one must admit a book of endless possibilities, a true Tree of Codes in which you can shake a branch and be sure that the leaves will never get back into the exact same position. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.Any analysis of reading today must consider contemporary writing practices. His books have won numerous awards and have been translated into 36 languages. Inspired to exhume a new story from an existing text, Jonathan Safran Foer has taken 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 told in Jonathan Safran Foer's own acclaimed voice.Ībout the Author: Jonathan Safran Foer is the author of the novels Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, and a work of nonfiction, Eating Animals. Tree of Codes is the story of an enormous last day of life as one character's life is chased to extinction, Foer multi-layers the story with immense, anxious, at times disorientating imagery, crossing both a sense of time and place, making the story of one person’s last day everyone’s story. Initially deemed impossible to make, the book is a first as much a sculptural object as it is a work of masterful storytelling. With a different die-cut on every page, Tree of Codes explores previously unchartered literary territory. A corm-producing plant (Crocus sativus) native to the eastern Mediterranean region, having purple or white flowers with orange stigmas. Synopsis: Tree of Codes is a haunting new story by best-selling American writer, Jonathan Safran Foer.
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