/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2770293]

What is the most physically peculiar book of you library, /lit/?

Mine is Cosac Naify's (a brazilian publisher) rendition of The Beast in the Jungle.

It looks like a normal book at first...

(excuse the shitty camera)

[Anonymous No.2770297]

But the front and back cover unfold.

[Anonymous No.2770298]

...but?

[Anonymous No.2770302]

To revel what should be an intermingled photo of Marcher and May.

[Omar B No.2770303]

So paper folding is new to you.

[Anonymous No.2770301]

>>2770297
It's weird because it has a dust jacket?

[Anonymous No.2770310]

Let's look inside: typical Bell MT font.

[Anonymous No.2770314]

But as we peruse the rest of the book, it's pages get thicker and darker little by little.

[Anonymous No.2770317]

Until it becomes white on black. The spacing between lines diminishes too.

[Anonymous No.2770323]

Neat!

[Anonymous No.2770326]

Do want.

Is that red tint on the book or your dodgy lighting/camera?

[[e-mail] !!jQErY3Wneyv No.2770327]

>>2770317
How does it handle the tone switch-over? I assume there's no place where the background and text are the same gray.

[Anonymous No.2770330]

>>2770323
According to the publishers, they wanted to make the reader gradually strain his own eyesight as Marcher approached the final revelation. It's kinda crazy but cool at the same time.

[Anonymous No.2770336]

>>2770326
Yeah. Smartphone + fluorescent light = bad photos

>>2770327
Until page 73 the type becomes sharper and darker and on page 74 it suddenly becomes white.

[Anonymous No.2770339]

Is this the same copy?

http://editora.cosacnaify.com.br/ObraSinopse/11082/The-Beast-in-the-Jungle.aspx

[Anonymous No.2770341]

>>2770339
Yep, that's it.

As a side note the material of the cover is unusual. My english vocabulary is lacking in this subject, so I don't know what to call it. The feel reminds me of a textile. It gets dirty easily, though.

[Anonymous No.2770344]

That's cool. You had me looking but I couldn't find anything much. A few of my books have nice covers, like Star Maker.

[Anonymous No.2770347]

>>2770341
Thanks OP, I might by a copy. Does that publisher have other funky books in Inglês?

[Anonymous No.2770354]

Posted this a few days ago.

The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas; the ends of the pages are black and the embossed writing on the cover has been coated in a weird texture (although the pic doesn't pick that up).

[Anonymous No.2770357]

>>2770347
Oh, Cosac Naify is very artsy. I think that's the only book in english they have published, though.

They have a very cool edition of Moby Dick, but that's in portuguese.

http://www.cosacnaify.com.br/noticias/mobydick/ilustracoes2.asp

[Anonymous No.2770362]

Onwards to my portuguese edition of Ulysses...

[Anonymous No.2770367]

It was made by Objetiva and it has a removable cover that reveals a cool "undercover".

[Anonymous No.2770375]

The best part is inside, however. This an index linking each chapter to a place, an hour, a human organ, an art, a color, a symbol and a technique.

The fourth chapter reads: "4. Calypso > The house > 8 AM > Economy > Orange > Nymph > Narrative

[Anonymous No.2770382]

Afterwards we find a map indicating where in Dublin each chapter takes place. I'll have to take this with me if I ever travel to Ireland!

[Anonymous No.2770404]

A portuguese translation of Mallarmé, by a trio of crazy brazilian poets.

It comes with a separate book just for "Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard"

[Anonymous No.2770409]

It preserves all the original typography, of course.

[Anonymous No.2770416]

By the end of the book we find a "poem" "written" by an engineer in honor of Mallarmé. Apparently the madman constructed a system of tubes into wich he injected a fluid. He then proceeded to measure the temperature of the liquid on each tube and assigned a letter to each different reading. The result is what you see.

[Anonymous No.2770421]

A portuguese edition of Mayakovsky.

[Anonymous No.2770423]

It features handwritten poems and doodles by Mayakovsky himself.

[Anonymous No.2770424]

Too bad no one fucking reads in this country, eh OP?

[Anonymous No.2770436]

One of the doodles: a bear declaring his love for Lilya Brik

[Anonymous No.2770444]

>>2770424
Oh, it is a shame, indeed. Our publishing industry can be very creative.

Now, this one isn't exactly unusual, but I had to mention it for it's beauty. This an essay magazine named Serrote. Our n+1, if you wish.

[Anonymous No.2770454]

Not literature per se but a book by a Japanese photographer. Its bound back to front, feels amazing to flick through and turn the pages

[Anonymous No.2770458]

>>2770454
That's not unusual, it's just the way japanese books are bound.

[Anonymous No.2770464]

A very old and... uh... narrow edition of Ecce Homo. Not sure what was the idea behind this.

[Anonymous No.2770466]

It has cool illustrations inside.

[Anonymous No.2770471]

>>2770458

Not really, while your likely to more variety in the way books are bound in Japan this one still stands out as being unusual, especially since your effectively wasting half of all the paper in the book.

Also, a traditional Japanese/Korean binding looks like this.

[Anonymous No.2770482]

Ha, that's my dad's (and associate) company. I'll tell him you like it

[Anonymous No.2770486]

>>2770482
You kidding, right? People from Cosac Naify browse 4chan?

Also, I've run out of weird books so have a pic of my dog with Virginia "Woof".

[Anonymous No.2770490]

>>2770482
Are you Michael Naify's son?

[Anonymous No.2770497]

>>2770486
damn nice shiba inu

[Anonymous No.2770508]

>>2770497
Ha, people usually think that he is an Akita cub or something. They are very rare in Brazil.

[Anonymous No.2770559]

Not my pic because my copy is halfway around the world. The book is one long sheet of accordion folded paper, with fragments of poems, photographs, ancient greek, etc all tucked into a book sized box.