Codex Seraphinianus
by Luigi Serafini
Buy on AmazonIllustrated encyclopaedia of an imaginary parallel universe written in an invented and incomprehensible language with a myriad of small, detailed coloured drawings of fantastic scenes, flora, fauna, mechanics, anatomy, mythology, food, clothing, etc.
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"Besides a visual masterwork, it’s also a timeless meditation on what “reality” really is, one all the timelier in today’s age of such seemingly surrealist feats as bioengineering whole new lifeforms, hurling subatomic particles at each other faster than the speed of light, and encoding an entire book onto a DNA molecule."
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