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»It is possible, dear reader, who is beginning this book for the first time, to imagine the world as a glass vase, for which there are two states: first the intact one, in which it still holds flowers and in which the light passing through it gently refracts into a rainbow; and then the shattered one, in which shards litter the ground like the remains of small shells litter the beach. A literature that comes from history to describe our present would have to answer what happened here. Its task would be to pick up the shards, while it is now in your hands to reassemble them.«
Published on the occasion of 📿 TEXT MATTERS. MATTERS OF TEXT, a festival
on the materiality of language, organized annually by the 📜 KLINGSPOR MUSEUM and 📖 PRÄPOSITION in Offenbach am Main.
With texts by Tanasgol Sabbagh, Heike Geißler, Enis Maci, Eva von Redecker, Moshtari Hilal, Sinthujan Varatharajah, Judith Schalansky and Holm-Uwe Burgemann.


Editor: 🤝 HOLM-UWE BURGEMANN
Artwork: 🖌️ RUTH ROXANE ECKRICH
Custom Type: Mimesis (🔠 LAUCKE SIEBEIN)


120 × 180 mm
224 pages
90 g/m² Salzer EOS blue-white 1,5
220 g/m² Peydur fine linen
Pantone 804U Neon, Pantone 874U Metallic
1. edition, 2024
🛒 18 EUR
ISBN 978-3-00-080088-7