Codex Seraphinianus - that smoking is the author? Bashny.Net

I'm in shock. While cooking a few pages from the book - not just broken a brain!

Codex Seraphinianus - a book written and illustrated by Italian architect and industrial designer Luigi Serafini in the late 1970s. The book contains about 360 pages (depending on the edition) and is a visual encyclopedia of an unknown world, written in an unknown language with a strange alphabet.

In 1978, the Milanese publisher Franco Maria Ricci came a large package. When employees of the publishing house opened it, instead of a collection of manuscripts discovered volume illustrated pages. Illustrations - bizarre and strange. The text itself, none of the editors read failed.

A cover letter explains that the author of this work, Luigi Serafini, an encyclopedia created an imaginary world the example of medieval scientific codes: Each page shows a detail specific object, action, or event; annotations are written in an imaginary language.

The word «SERAPHINIANUS» stands for «Strange and Extraordinary Representations of Animals and Plants and Hellish Incarnations of Normal Items from the Annals of Naturalist / Unnaturalist Luigi Serafini», that is, "Strange and unusual representations of animals, plants and the infernal incarnations from the depths of consciousness Naturalist / antinaturalista Luigi Serafini ».

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The first part of this work is devoted to the flora, fauna, physics and mechanics. The second - an ordinary and important people, architecture, writing, food and clothing, games and entertainment. Thus, Codex Seraphinianus is a complete encyclopedia of a fictional world that could exist there, or will exist somewhere in the universe.

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Codex is divided into 11 chapters, in turn, is divided into two sections: the first about the natural world, the second of a man. The illustrations are often surreal parodies of things from the real world: bleeding fruit; have sex a couple of turns into a crocodile; and so on.. Some illustrations are easily recognized, such as maps and faces. Almost all the pictures brightly colored and rich in detail.

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The famous Italian journalist Italo Calvino was delighted: "The Code" - one of the most interesting examples of the illustrated book. Read it, using not the usual language and the traditional perception. There is no other value in this book than the one which gives it an ingenious reader ».

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