Codex Seraphinianus by Luigi Serafini, eBook. Strange book full of colorful drawings and obscure history
* Number of pages: 371 pages
* The Codex seraphinianus is a book written in the late 1970s by Luigi Serafini and published in 1981 by the publisher Franco Maria Ricci in his collection "The Signs of Man".
* The Codex seraphinianus is designed as a kind of encyclopedia of a totally imaginary world composed of eleven chapters dealing with nature, humanoids, minerals, mathematics, architecture and writing. It is filled with surreal drawings that seem to describe a fantasy world parallel to our own. Its text is written in an imaginary language, with an unknown script invented by Luigi Serafini himself, and which is undoubtedly indecipherable. Writing is constantly present in the 400 pages of the book, both in the legends of the drawings and in the foliation of the pages and the various tables of contents. The whole forms a coherent whole, with constancy in creativity. There is even a chapter presenting the writing and speech of a kind of Rosetta stone which lists two imaginary languages: that of the Codex Seraphinianus itself and another, also invented by Luigi Serafini.
* Despite the homogeneity of the Codex, Luigi Serafini left a single and unique gap in two contiguous pages of the book, which is perhaps a key to understanding his intention: it is a reclining man whose inkwell has let out a few words written in French, scattered and apparently incoherent, but among which we can distinguish this sentence: "Fille orgiaque surgie et devinée, le premier jour sur la digue de Balbec. The Proustians will no doubt have recognized the description of Albertine (Albertine disappeared).
To get an idea, there's nothing like reading this pad of 300 pages, each one weirder than the other...
* The book is very rare, its paper format costs up to 5000 euro
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The book is divided into eleven chapters. Each chapter depicts a different side of Luigi Serafini's fantasy world. The first chapter is devoted to plants, the second to animals, the third to talk about strange bipedal creatures, the fourth to physics, the fifth to chemistry, the sixth to biology, the seventh to history, the eighth to writing, the ninth to food and clothing, the tenth to games, and the eleventh chapter about architecture.
Codex Seraphinianus, originally published in 1981, created by the Italian artist, architect, and industrial designer Luigi Serafini during thirty months, from 1976 to 1978, and written in a cipher alphabet in a constructed language
