Double Act
Adam Smyth: ‘A Humument’, 11 October 2012
A Humument: A Treated Victorian Novel
by Tom Phillips.
Thames and Hudson, 392 pp., £14.95, May 2012,978 0 500 29043 9 Show More
by Tom Phillips.
Thames and Hudson, 392 pp., £14.95, May 2012,
“... Safran Foer produced Tree of Codes (2010) by cutting away most of the text of his favourite book, Bruno Schulz’s short story collection The Street of Crocodiles (1934; translated into English in 1963), to leave behind a new story (slicing seven letters from ‘Street of Crocodiles’ leaves ‘Tree of Codes’); its fragile pages are largely composed ... ”
