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year:
2002 size: A4 square / one finger thick covers: hardbound in dark red linen + plywood box (softbound version has paper covers and cardboard box) paper: normal white print: deskjet printer language: Polish, English open edition: 13 Polish and 4 English copies made so far (and 17 Polish and 5 English softbound) Long
time ago one of the very first readers of one of my early books said
to me: “You should write a commentary explaining this
book”.
Despite the expectations TREATISE is not a commentary to any of my
(and not my) books. The best commentary to any work (a book or a
piece of art) is this work itself - it explains itself in the best
and most profound way. TREATISE is not a theory of liBerature,
either. In fact I don’t know what it is and what it was to
be. With
no doubt it’s not a collection of instructions “how
to make”
and “how to judge”. It’s not a collection
of demands,
requirements, indications, regulations and commands. Most probably
it’s a collection of possibilities -
prompts what a book
could be like if one made the most of those possibilities.
None
of the books I have made so far uses all the possibilities described
in the TREATISE. As well as the possibilities not described (but who
knows?). Nor any of the books I have seen and read so far.
It’s
wonderful. It’s great. It means there is so much left to be
done
and discovered.
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