Luigi Serafini

Presents a surreal art book, redesigned by the author with new illustrations, offering a visual encyclopedia of an unknown world written in an unknown language.

Codex Seraphinianus Thirty-three

My husband was streaming a video game called Tunic this afternoon. Something about the melancholy, dreamlike tone, and the sheer weight of the past on the present in the world reminded me very strongly of the Viriconium series, so I thought I'd have a look. I was intrigued by mention in the introduction of another book altogether ( Codex Seraphinianus)- a book of impossibilities where "The ideas are strange enough that one can fancy the book something that has come to us from a long time from now, or from an extremely long way away." 

That's exactly how I felt when I read it. As I'm sure was the authors intention, it felt like it had been dug out of a long abandoned tomb on another planet. A guide to a people we can't even fathom. I loved it.

Codex Seraphinianus Thirty-three

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