The Story of a Young Gentleman
An ultra-short story that in defiance of literary taste and publishing conventions manifests itself as a novel-sized book, even containing the entire text of Tolstoy’s War and Peace.
It brings to mind a fly thinking it might drive a car, a raindrop imagining it will drown a city, a particle of dust readying itself to make you stumble.
Leerdam, The Netherlands, 2011.
B&W, perfect bound paperback. 350 pages.
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This book was shortlisted in the 2012 Artists’ Books of the Moment Award, Art Gallery of York University, Canada.
