Pulped Fiction: The Da Vinci Code Transformed into 1984

Pulped Fiction: The Da Vinci Code Transformed into 1984

Time Stamp: November 29, 2023 4:59 AM
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If you’ve read The Da Vinci Code, you know that it’s a very fast read. We have a friend who picked up Dan Brown’s bestseller in a bookshop, opened to the first page, went into a fugue state, and came back to consciousness a few hours later having finished the book, almost against their will. During those strange and dark times when the book first came out, many otherwise discerning readers had similar experiences — so many people, in fact, that the world is still overrun with copies of The Da Vinci Code, decades after its first release. Now artists David Shrigley has a solution to this disturbing phenomenon. Here’s more from JUXTAPOZ:

The story goes that Shrigley’s studio worked with a specialist papermill, book designer and screenprinters to upcycle and repurpose the books into a release of 1,000 copies of Nineteen Eighty- Four, which came out of copyright in 2021. Each book in the edition has been signed and numbered by David Shrigley and comes with a signed and numbered screen-print. Fragments of the original novels remain on the paper, with letters and sometimes whole words of Robert Langdon’s adventures appearing on the pages. The typeface was carefully chosen to mirror the type used for The Da Vinci Code’s first edition, while the book’s cover has been repurposed from the card backing and dustjackets of more than 1,250 copies of the hardback special edition.

“I am fascinated by the power of books to rewrite our culture, something that Dan Brown and George Orwell have each addressed in their wildly successful works,” Shrigley said in a statement. “Pulped Fiction should not be seen as a commentary on either writer, but as one artist’s effort to rescue a mountain of unwanted paperbacks and turn them into something new.”

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