“A Divergent Elsewhere”: Erasure and Layering in Tree of Codes by Jonathan Safran Foer and The Desert by Jen Bervin
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5 juillet 2023
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- eisbn: 9782840165316
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In an interview with the New York Times, Jonathan Safran Foer described Tree of Codes as a kind of unplugged work of art: “On the brink of the end of paper, I was attracted to the idea of a book that can’t forget it has a body.” A book, then, that refused to become an electrical current. This might seem a curiously paradoxical place to start with when focusing on the digital, yet, in the very conception of his work, Foer produced a hybrid object which not only challenges what a book is, but a...