The Most Mysterious Book Now Online

Jeremy Hatch bio ↓ · February 24th, 2010 · filed under art, books

The Codex Seraphinianus — a mysterious book by an artist named Luigi Serafini, which is often described as seeming to be “a visual encyclopedia of an unknown planet” — has been placed online in its entirety.

Back in 2007, Justin Taylor wrote about the book in the Believer, and in 2009 he wrote a follow-up article about reader response to it over at HTMLGIANT. You may want to save these links for the weekend; it’s worth spending half a day or more with this amazing book and the stuff Justin has written about it.

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Jeremy Hatch is a writer, musician, and professional bookseller leading a cheerful, aimless life in San Francisco. He is the Junior Literary Editor of the Rumpus and has a blog which he updates once in a while. More from this author →

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